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

Intel 1000MT Lan connection upgrade

2007-02-04 Thread Tijnema !
Hi i upgraded my Realtek RTL8139D(10/100) to a Intel 1000MT (10/100/1000), but i can't get it to work. what i already did, i installed the e1000-7.3.20 kernel module and installed it with insmod. but what do i need to do more?, i placed it in the same PCI slot as my Realtek. Thanks in

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

2007-02-04 Thread Baho Utot
On Sunday 04 February 2007 8:59 am, P R Figueiredo wrote: 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

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.

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

2007-02-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/4/07, P R Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-02-04 Thread Arnie Stender
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Nicholson wrote: Not if you did it as an unprivileged user. It'd be a security hole for you to copy stuff and retain other's privileges. Only root can do that. A simple `cp -a' works, but `tar' or `cpio' are probably better suited for this. I

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

2007-02-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Arnie Stender wrote these words on 02/04/07 12:21 CST: I don't have time right now to test tar and cpio but I do know for sure a straight cp of an SUID file does NOT produce an SUID copy of the file, even if done as root. Um, Arnie, the thread started with someone saying that they are

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

2007-02-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/4/07, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have time right now to test tar and cpio but I do know for sure a straight cp of an SUID file does NOT produce an SUID copy of the file, even if done as root. I just did a cp -a of Xorg as root, which is suid, and it showed

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

2007-02-04 Thread Arden
On Feb 4, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Arnie Stender wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Not if you did it as an unprivileged user. It'd be a security hole for you to copy stuff and retain other's privileges. Only root can do that. A simple `cp -a' works, but `tar' or `cpio' are probably better suited

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

2007-02-04 Thread Arnie Stender
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/4/07, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have time right now to test tar and cpio but I do know for sure a straight cp of an SUID file does NOT produce an SUID copy of the file, even if done as

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

2007-02-04 Thread Arnie Stender
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arden wrote: What is this -a option? My man cp doesn't show any -a option. I had the same trouble with cp so I have done this; cd to the partition you want to move and tar cvpf - .|(cd /mnt/hda6; tar xvpf - .) Seems to work better. Arden