su problem

[Sami Halabi]

Hi,
%ls -l /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16944 Jun  7 19:47 /usr/bin/su
%

I don't think this realtred to suid bit, because if so it would give
permission denied error...

Sami

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>wrote:

> 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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