Jon: What did you do to /bin/su that it now has your userid as the owner? This is probably the base problem you have. You, or something you ran, has hacked this file, and horked it up. Your best bet would be to go back to your installation CDs, and re-install the rpm that contains the su command. Doing anything else should leave you worried about your security. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 (new loc) 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Jahren Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:35 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Cannot login as root in terminal On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:21 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > > what does > > ll /bin/su > > say? Something like this? > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 78837 Jul 25 16:36 /bin/su > > especially the first part > > -rws > > -Andy It says: "[jon@localhost ~]$ ll /bin/su -rwxr-xr-x 1 jon root 59740 Jul 25 17:39 /bin/su" I've tried typing my password slowly, checking my keyboard layout, changing password, _removing_ the password from /etc/shadow and creating a new one, but alas. I just get "incorrect password" from the terminal. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
