On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 13:52 +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> I'm installing LFS 6.1.1 with package users. It seems that I need 
> to 'chown root /bin/su' (without setting the setuid flag!) after 
> the installation of the shadow package so that root can su to a 
> package user. Otherwise I get "setgid: Operation not permitted" 
> message. Why is this necessary? 
su has to be owned by root AND s flagged
because otherwise you can't switch from an unpriviliged user ...
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