Shawn wrote:
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
Seems reasonable.
If you're in doubt about what the ownership and permissions of a
particular file should be, you could try asking rpm.
e.g. to check /boot, you could use:
$ rpm -qlfv /boot | awk '$9 == "/boot"'
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 12 2004 /boot
(replace both occurrences of /boot in the command line above with the
full pathname of any file you wish to check)
Paul.
