Re: su does not appear to be working

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:01:53PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > 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? Close, but not quite: -

su does not appear to be working

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: -