I could not become superuser

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > I installed FreeBSD6.0. and it was running well by today . 
> > > My FreeBSD server gave a problem about user login.
> > > I could not become superuser.
> > > my user that has superuser. When I login the server this user 
> > > the screen gives things as below
> > > user>su 
> > > not running setuid
> > > 
> > > what shell I do ?
> > 
> > I think you are saying that you tried to 'su' from a non root user login.
> > Is that true?
> > If so, the thing to check is if that user is in the 'wheel' group.
> > Look in the file  /etc/group  and make sure that user is added
> > to the wheel group.
> 
> Actually, I believe su is more helpful if that's the case, giving an
> error such as "you are not in the correct group ..."
> 
> The "not running setuid" makes me wonder.  Have you changed permissions
> on any files on that machine.  the su program will need setuid permissions
> and be owned by root to work properly.  On my 5.4 machine, it looks like
> this:

Yah, I wondered too, but I thought the first thing to do was 
get the wheel group check out of the way.   Then I would have
to start thinking.

////jerry

> 
> ls -l /usr/bin/su
> -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14292 May 27 12:24 /usr/bin/su
> 
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