SUMMARY: Can not su to root anymore

From: Rich Glazier (rglazier2002@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 18:02:40 EDT


Thanks for everyone's reply. I lost the sticky bit on
/usr/bin/su. Changing that worked. Another sysadmin
did a chmod on files other than what he meant to.

--- Rich Glazier <rglazier2002@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Suddenly my ability to su to root (su root, or su -)
> has ceased. No message, just returns my to a prompt
> and I remain in my current login shell. securettys
> still has /dev/comsole, no /etc/default/login file,
> and both my oginal account and root are in the
> system
> group.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> 5.1A PK6
>
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