Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password -- SOLVED!!!

2005-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 09 May 2005 10:20:23 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >So "emerge --oneshot shadow" should restore things to their defaults. > Setting the setuid bit on /bin/su and /bin/login fixed my login > problems. I'm tried this suggestion and it worked. However I don't > quite understand exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password -- SOLVED!!!

2005-05-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/9/2005 4:17 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2005 17:53:26 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: OK, I've done some more reading and found that the reason I couldn't use 'su' as myself was because /bin/su didn't have the setuid bit set. So in all my fooling around, I have file ownership and mo