You might want to check that su hasn't been replaced with a rootkit su. On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:47, Richard Luckhurst wrote: > Hi list > > I am using Redhat 7.2 for a client and today noticed a problem I've > not seen before. I went to become root as I always have, with su, > and instead of being asked for the root password and becoming root > I got asked for the password and then got an error about not being able to > change groups. I have checked that no one has been playing around with > the group and passwd files and they are untouched as are the permissions > on /bin/su. Has anyone got any idea why I might now be getting this > error? > > Thanks a lot > > Richard > > ____________________________________________________ > > Richard Luckhurst > > Manager / Engineer > Sound Advice > P.O. Box 104 > Narrabri NSW 2390 Australia > > Ph / Fax +61 2 6792 6060 > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ********************************************************************
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