su problem

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Sat Jun 9 14:43:24 UTC 2012


Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
 > %id
 > uid=1001(sody) gid=1001(sody) groups=1001(sody),0(wheel)
 > %
 > 
 > i have another account also id 1002 - sody2, also in group wheel.
 > i can ssh using user sody/sody2, however su doesn't work if i do: su sody2,
 > when i logged in with user sody.
 > it seems that su is broken somehow....

Something is definitely broken.  Maybe the suid-root bit was
accidentally removed from the su binary?  What is the output
from "ls -l /usr/bin/su"?

Best regards
   Oliver


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