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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