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der.hans plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:31:28 -0700 (MST)


Am 16. Mar, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bryce C so:

> Can someone tell my why I get
> su: Permission denied
> Sorry.
> when I try and su to root on my nice, clean gentoo install?  More to the
> point, can someone tell me how to fix this please?

Look at the perms on /bin/su. Looks like you're missing some execute bits.
It should be 4755, -rwsr-xr-x, with both owner and group being root.

Gentoo might've reduced the perms for security reasons. Maybe they're tryin=
g
to push using sudo.

ciao,

der.hans
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