On Friday 26 April 2002 16:36, skinky wrote:
> Today I made a reeeal bad mistake... I accidentally changed permissions on
> the /bin directory instead of a bin subdirectory and now I am unable to su
> to root.  I get "incorrect password".  Well at least I think thats what the
> problem is.
>
> AND I've only just completed a clean reinstall of LM8.1 which has taken
> days to get everything configured (eg. apache, twiki, samba, etc)!  I
> really don't want to reinstall...  Spent hours searching the net for clues,
> thinking it was something to do with basic authentication in apache with
> .htaccess files then remembered my error.  I think it was a "chmod a+x
> /bin/*".
>
> So can someone pleeease tell me the permissions on /bin/su ?  Hopefully
> that will solve my problem.

-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        13952 Feb  7  2001 /bin/su

Sir Robin

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