restored a backup and can't su to root now

2007-02-04 Thread P R Figueiredo
I restored my (B)LFS system from a backup (basically, booted from a cd, copied everything from the backup disk to the destination disk, mounted the /dev filesystem, and fixed grub), and everything's working just fine except for this annoying thing: if I log in as a common user, I can't su to

Re: restored a backup and can't su to root now

2007-02-04 Thread P R Figueiredo
Baho Utot wrote: Check that su is SUID [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la /bin/su -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 24060 Jan 10 10:06 /bin/su Yep, that was it, thanks. It seems permissions were not copied through the backup process. For instance, now the /tmp dir wasn't writeable by common users either.