su problem

[Sami Halabi]

I already posted that:

%ls -l /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16944 Jun  7 19:47 /usr/bin/su
%

Sami

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org> wrote:

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>
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> On Jun 9, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > %sysctl kern.console
> > kern.console: ttyv0,dcons,/dcons,ttyv0,uart,ucom,
> >
> > %tail /var/log/messages
> > Jun  7 19:54:35 vps16 kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> > Jun  7 19:54:36 vps16 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
> > Jun  7 20:18:04 vps16 kernel: ugen0.2: <vendor 0x09da> at usbus0
> > Jun  7 20:18:04 vps16 kernel: ukbd0: <vendor 0x09da USB Keyboard, class
> > 0/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2> on usbus0
> > Jun  7 20:18:04 vps16 kernel: kbd2 at ukbd0
> > Jun  7 20:18:05 vps16 kernel: uhid0: <vendor 0x09da USB Keyboard, class
> > 0/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2> on usbus0
> > Jun  7 20:19:37 vps16 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1
> > Jun  7 20:21:19 vps16 kernel: ugen0.2: <vendor 0x09da> at usbus0
> > (disconnected)
> > Jun  7 20:21:19 vps16 kernel: ukbd0: at uhub0, port 1, addr 2
> (disconnected)
> > Jun  7 20:21:19 vps16 kernel: uhid0: at uhub0, port 1, addr 2
> (disconnected)
> > %
> >
> > the system was loaded with keyboard and disconnected later if i
> understand
> > the logs...
> >
> > New ideas are appreciated, and thanks in advance,
> > Sami
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein at rdtc.ru>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 09.06.2012 19:47, Sami Halabi пишет:
> >>> %su -
> >>> Password:
> >>> load: 0.00  cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 0.91r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k
> >>
> >> Perpaps, your system had no keyboard attached at boot time;
> >> or for some other reason it booted with /dev/console being serial
> console
> >> instead of vidconsole. su locks trying to access serial console
> >> that is /dev/ttyd0 by default and has Carrier Detect flag enabled.
> >> Hence, it waits for CD on the first serial port (miserably and
> hopelessly).
> >>
> >> You can check if it's true with "sysctl kern.console" command.
> >> You could ask someone to boot the system with keyboard attached -
> >> no need to type anything, though. The system should detect it
> >> and assingn /dev/ttyv0 as /dev/console instead of /dev/ttyd0.
> >> And "su" won't lock.
> >>
> >> Eugene Grosbein
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sami Halabi
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> Check the permissions on the su binary it could be missing the suid but.
>
> ---
> Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
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Sami Halabi
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NMS Projects Expert
FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert