Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 3, 2:10 am, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then your system is rather unusual, to say the least. The following > programs are 1755 on my system: > > /bin/su > /bin/mount > /bin/umount > /bin/ping > /bin/ping6 > > Not having /bin/su suid root is probably Rick's problem. > Thanks,

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 3, 9:40 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, just not noticing rws amongst all the rwx's. Use ls --color, and they jump out at you. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 02:07, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-01-03 05:07 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On my system, all the non-symlinks in /bin are 755 root:root. > > Then your system is rather unusual, to say the least. The following > programs are 1755 on

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-03 05:07 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On my system, all the non-symlinks in /bin are 755 root:root. Then your system is rather unusual, to say the least. The following programs are 1755 on my system: /bin/su /bin/mount /bin/umount /bin/ping /bin/ping6 Not having /bin/su suid root is

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 21:28, Rick Dooling wrote: > Plot thickens. Not a sudoer problem, probably. > > Examining bash history, I mistakenly chowned /bin (instead of ~/bin) > to my username. I chowned it back to root, but I must have messed up > permissions the s

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Dooling
Plot thickens. Not a sudoer problem, probably. Examining bash history, I mistakenly chowned /bin (instead of ~/bin) to my username. I chowned it back to root, but I must have messed up permissions the setuid programs. I'll figure it out when I get back on that machine tomorrow. Thanks, rick -

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 16:39, Rick Dooling wrote: > Here's a weird one. > > On a new installation of Etch, I edited sudoers to give root > priveleges to myself (user rick). > > Suddenly when gnome asks for my administrator password or when I try > to do "su" it

su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Dooling
Here's a weird one. On a new installation of Etch, I edited sudoers to give root priveleges to myself (user rick). Suddenly when gnome asks for my administrator password or when I try to do "su" it fails to accept my root password. If I log out to terminal, I can log in as root, but not as su.