Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Problems with "su" Keywords: su Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 12:23:45 GMT References: Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 23 In cs342a37@cs.iastate.edu (Class login) writes: >I have a question about su in Minix 1.5. I upgraded my Minix from 1.3 to 1.5 >recently via the network upgrade kit. Since then, all is fine except su. >It doesn't seem to let me login as root or anyone else. When I do a su from >a user account and try to login as a super user, I can login. But when I run >whoami, I get back my original username, not the root or whatever it was >suppose to be. >Can anyone help? >Thanks Su should be suid root. You can do this by (being root): chown root su chmod 4755 su Klamer Question for the reader (easy): How to become root if su does not work? -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer