cannot su?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Mon Jan 17 13:15:24 PST 2005


Robert Watson wrote:

> I've modified the su(1) source in HEAD to print a message if su(1) is
> executed without an effective uid of 0 (i.e., as root, or setuid as
> another user).  Hopefully this error message will be more suggestive than
> "sorry": 
> 
>   paprika:~/freebsd/commit/src/usr.bin/su> ./su
>   su: not running setuid
> 
> Assuming I didn't shoot any feet, I'll MFC this to RELENG_5 in a couple of
> weeks.

Thanks! :)


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