Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Superuser Message-ID: <13311@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 89 01:25:03 GMT References: <1971@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <2662@m2-net.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 17 As quoted from <2662@m2-net.UUCP> by mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst): +--------------- | I don't know if this is true for Minix, but for most Unixes, if su | is executed as root, it doesn't ask for a password. Thus, by making | su SUID root, it is executing as root, and thus (thinking that you are | root) doesn't ask for a password. +--------------- Eh wot? If su ISN'T setuid root, it can't change you TO root, password or no password! Try again. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.