On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > I noticed on the info he posted that MY permissions on SU have the
> > SUID bit set and his doesn't. I don't know if that would cause it or
> > not.
> 
>       Yup...  That was it.  He could run it, it just couldn't read
> the shadow file (nor would it have been able to change UID even if
> it could have validated him) and so it gave him a failed password.
> 
Heh. My family nickname isn't "sharp eyes" for nothing! ;-)
        John



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