On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote: > It looks like some element relating to su has been broken. I apologize for > not knowing which package contains su, but I have the latest version for > Potato (x86) as of Wednesday (yesterday). I've just discovered that > su fails to work on the console, too. Should I downgrade some packages (and > if so, how is that done?) or wait until the next version of package x(y,z) > to come out? Is anyone else having this problem?
Yes, it is shellutils package, and to fix it, just make /bin/su suid root. -- Andrew