SUMMARY: su problem on Tru64 V5.1a

From: dhuggard@shaw.ca
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 20:56:20 EST

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James Sainsbury prompted me to look at GNU Utils that were installed. And yes. The su in /usr/local/bin was the problem.

Thank you to James, and thank you to the other valuable responses I also recieved.

----- Original Message -----
From: dhuggard@shaw.ca
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:36 pm
Subject: su problem on Tru64 V5.1a

> Hello Managers,
>
> I recently have been getting this output from trying an su to any
> user from my account only.
>
> su: cannot set groups: Not owner
>
> If I try su from logging into another account that is not mine it
> works as it should.
>
> I've examined permissions. My account is in the system group
> amoungst others. I am wondering if anyone else has come accross
> this and might know what the cause is.
>
> I'll post a summary of the result that fixes the problem.
>
> Thank you
> Cheers,
> Dana_H
>
>
>
>

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