su problems (bob) (Was Re: Taroon-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 11)

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su problems (bob) (Was Re: Taroon-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 11)

su problems (bob) (Was Re: Taroon-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 11)

2005-06-06 - By bob

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47522 Aug 12 2003 /bin/su

-bob
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From: "Koree A. Smith" <koreesmith@(protected)>
To: <taroon-list@(protected)>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 9:57 AM
Subject: RE: su problems (bob) (Was Re: Taroon-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue
11)

> What are the permissions on su currently?
>
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> Koree A. Smith
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> koreesmith@(protected)
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>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 10:55:51 -0500
>> From: "bob" <sdcbob@(protected)>
>> Subject: RE: su problems
>> To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 $Taroon$"
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>> Hello, after the recent kernel update to my box via up2date some odd
>> things are going on with su.
>>
>> output---
>>
>> $ up2date
>> You are attempting to run "up2date" which requires administrative
>> privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so.
>> Password for root:
>> Please specify either -l, -u, --nox, or package names as command line
>> arguments.
>> usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>]
>>
>>
>> Same account,
>>
>>
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
>>
>> $ su -
>> Password:
>> su: incorrect password
>> $ id
>> uid=2525(bob) gid=2525(bob) groups=2525(bob),10(wheel)
>>
>>
>> same with su root , open for suggestions. hope this is the correct list
>> to send this too =)
>>
>>
>> -bob
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