su problem

[Andrey Zonov]

sudo is not installed?

On 6/10/12 12:22 AM, Sami Halabi wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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Andrey Zonov