On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:52:50PM -0600, john Mish III wrote:
I get this error message when I try to su to anything, either from root or
to root, and I don't know why.
$ su
su: not running setuid
Somehow your su application lost its setuid bit. Instead of blinding
chmodding it you may want
--On December 6, 2006 9:42:41 PM -0500 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:52:50PM -0600, john Mish III wrote:
I get this error message when I try to su to anything, either from root
or to root, and I don't know why.
$ su
su: not running setuid
Somehow your su
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:08:18PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On December 6, 2006 9:42:41 PM -0500 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:52:50PM -0600, john Mish III wrote:
I get this error message when I try to su to anything, either from root
or to root,
At 09:45 AM 4/17/2006, James Riendeau wrote:
I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not
prompting for a password. I created a new account, and it does the
same thing there. If the user is in the wheel group, it drops to the
# prompt. If not, it echos the BAD SU attempt
On Monday, April 17, 2006 5:45 PM James Riendeau wrote:
I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not
prompting for a password. I created a new account, and it does the
same thing there. If the user is in the wheel group, it
drops to the
# prompt. If not, it
Thanks! I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead
for not thinking of that. I'm accustomed to being prompted for the
user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been
spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I guess). I must have
clobbered only the root
In the last episode (Apr 17), James Riendeau said:
Thanks! I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead
for not thinking of that. I'm accustomed to being prompted for the
user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been
spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I
Kevin Coles wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem
to su to root while using my normal account.
All I get is a message saying Sorry. Can anyone help?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Coles
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote:
I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem
to su to root while using my normal account.
All I get is a message saying Sorry. Can anyone help?
You need to be a member of the wheel group in order to use
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote:
I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem
to su to root while using my normal account.
All I get is a message saying Sorry. Can anyone help?
Try resetting the root password perhaps? See here:
Jez Hancock wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote:
I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem
to su to root while using my normal account.
All I get is a message saying Sorry. Can anyone help?
Try resetting the root password perhaps?
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:42:17PM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote:
Jez Hancock wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote:
I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem
to su to root while using my normal account.
All I get is a message saying
IMHO, op is far superior to sudo.
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03:04 pm, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
| Balaji, Pavan wrote:
| I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for
| creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation.
|
| It means Install 'sudo' so that you get
On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:06 am, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
| IMHO, op is far superior to sudo.
Hmm . . . come to think of it, that's a little terse.
op is easy to configure, and it allows you give access to people not to
certain commands but to certain commands *only* with certain
Balaji, Pavan wrote:
I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for
creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation.
It means Install 'sudo' so that you get tighter control over who can do
what, and much better logging.
:-)
I've known about sudo for ages
The user needs to be part of the group wheel in order to have access
to su.
---Marius
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