> 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
>


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