Re: su issues

From: Eric Jackson (jacksone_at_seas.upenn.edu)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:18:22 -0500

"Vwakes" <vwakeNOSPAM100@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.55.0311061659190.3783@xnqnccn.cvarzna...
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 Eric Jackson wrote:
>
> >I have a serious problem: I cannot su - to another user (It fails to
> >even prompt me to type a password and automatically jumps to reporting
> >it as incorrect).
>
> Does 'su' work for any user at all?

None, doesn't work for anybody even as root to another user.

> Do you have any alias to 'su' cmd, do 'which su' to check?

There is no alias set, I was hoping it would be this simple.

> Check the perms and filesize of 'su'? Or simply do this on the prompt:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 19132 Aug 29 2002 /bin/su

> $ rpm -qV `rpm -qf /bin/su`
>
> If you see any output post it here.
>

[root@fileserver root]# rpm -qf /bin/su
coreutils-4.5.3-19
[root@fileserver root]# rpm -qV coreutils-4.5.3-19
S.5....T /bin/su

The coreutils package is one of the rpms I updated when setting up Samba. I
installed coreutils-4.5.3-19.i386.rpm from the redhat web site.

> V.

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