Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:00:31 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU Problems on FBSD 4.0 Box Message-ID: <3958510E.56A3BAF3@i-clue.de> References: <C96996C3D753D311A5400001FAF86B258E28A9@ntli02-003.lsr-ooe.gv.at>
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Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a Problem, SUing from a nonprivileged user in the wheel group to > root. Everytime i trie a su i get the simple error Message "Sorry.". > The access permissions for the password files are as followed: > > -rw------- 1 root wheel 1154 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/master.passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1016 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 40960 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/pwd.db > -rw------- 1 root wheel 40960 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/spwd.db > > And the password i typed in for root is correct. You are my last hope, > because nobody in many different newsgroups has an answer to this > question. Thank you. Has somebody placed another su binary in your path? Try /sbin/su instead of just su. HTH -Christoph Sold P.S: If you ever used a fake su, assume your system to be cracked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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