On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:50:50PM +0530, Rohan Almeida wrote: > Logu wrote: > > I gave chmod u+s /bin/su > > And it works now. > > Which makes me wonder why does su require setuid? > Since it neways prompts for password.
Authentication is done against /etc/shadow, which is usually readable only by root. Hence su should be setuid root. Binand _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
