> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:34:42 -0500 > From: Dan McGhee <[email protected]> > To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > Subject: [lfs-support] Preparing for new LFS build > > Getting ready to build LFS-7.5 and want to "head off" some situations > before I begin. Somewhere in my last {,B}LFS build, I lost--or never > had--the ability to run "su" or "su -" Yes, I have sudo, but I use the > Package Users--I know, I know--System and need "su." I have PAM > installed currently and used Christopher Gregory's solution, documented > on a recent post to "blfs-dev" and copied /etc/pam.d/su to > /etc/pam.d/su-1. This did not solve the situation. > > Here is the result of running > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 shadow-4.1.5.1 shadow-4.1.5.1 135159 Dec 11 2013 su > > Does "su" need to be owned by root or run suid to work? Do the files in
(( A point of (indirect) ref: here it's typically: -rws--x--x 1 root root [...] /bin/su* ; that's on non-PAM systems - oh and the size is typically ~60K. )) akh > /etc/pam.d need to be owned by root? > > I know that PAM is a BLFS thing and I've never used it before my last > build. Needed it to satisfy dependencies for BLFS packages that I > wanted to use. > > Thanks, > Dan > -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
