> > > > Please see his topic and the link he made with it to the other thread, > > where he wrote: "I can't su to root anymore." > > And note that /bin/su (and similarly, /usr/bin/passwd) are setuid > programs that need to be owned by root. If they have changed ownership, > they won't work any more. > > Fix for these two specific programs: > # chown root:root /bin/su /usr/bin/passwd > # chmod 4755 /bin/su > # chmod 4511 /usr/bin/passwd ok in general is jr:root a pretty odd combination for ownership (jr is a regular user) can I assume that things with that combination be changed back I'll have to go through and find other combinations too but... going through things [root@bb197-165 ~]# cd / [root@bb197-165 /]# ls -la | grep "jr" drwxr-xr-x 23 jr root 4096 Jul 8 14:39 . drwxr-xr-x 23 jr root 4096 Jul 8 14:39 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 jr root 1024 Jul 8 08:28 boot drwxr-xr-x 81 jr root 12288 Jul 8 23:29 etc [root@bb197-165 /]# cd boot [root@bb197-165 boot]# ls -la | grep "jr" drwxr-xr-x 4 jr root 1024 Jul 8 08:28 . ... -rw-r--r-- 1 jr root 1405861 Nov 3 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ***amost everything -- will change everything back [root@bb197-165 boot]# cd /etc [root@bb197-165 etc]# ls -la | grep "jr" drwxr-xr-x 81 jr root 12288 Jul 8 23:29 . drwxr-xr-x 23 jr root 4096 Jul 8 14:39 .. [root@bb197-165 etc]# find -uid 500 . ./sysconfig/network-scripts [root@bb197-165 etc]# cd ./sysconfig/network-scripts [root@bb197-165 network-scripts]# find -uid 500 . [root@bb197-165 network-scripts]# ls -la | grep "jr" drwxr-xr-x 2 jr root 4096 Apr 7 06:03 . ***not so much changed in etc -- will change everything back Thanks for the help so far
