I've encountered a strange behavior with a debian machine I have
inherited. If I try to su to root, it always comes back with:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, I see this:
-rwxr-xr-x
^
If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, on a working machine:
-rwsr-xr-x
^
I'm assuming this has something to do with it. From my limited
knowledge, I believe this is called the sticky bit? Could someone please
point me to where I can find out how to change the permissions to this
and to get a little more knowledge on the subject?
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Jason Stechschulte
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