On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:07 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Erich :) > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky > <erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com> wrote: > > What happens on a normal TTY? > > > >> Ctrl + Alt + F2 > > > > > So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here? > > Ctrl + Alt + F* will open a ttyv* > > I can log in as root, but if I log in as user, I can't run su successfully.
Because as you quoted, the su binary doesn't have the UID 0, this means it's not owned by root anymore which may have bad influence on its runtime behaviour. :-) You have: -r-sr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 16880 Dec 23 18:38 /usr/bin/su You should have: -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14604 2011-08-21 20:24:28 /usr/bin/su* As I mentioned in my previous message, somehow the UID change had some strange side effects. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
