25 Jul
2019
25 Jul
'19
7:47 a.m.
On Thursday 25 July 2019 03:01:17 Mike Bird wrote:
On Wed July 24 2019 23:36:42 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
With all the hoorah about tdesu, I just tried it, found it worthless. It
asks for the root password on a system that has no root passwd, I do
everything that needs root with a sudo. Sigh.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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> $ ps ufax | grep tdesu
Unfortunately that doesn't show the user running /usr/bin/X11/su.
However it seems possible that your su has lost its suid bit.
Please do "ls -dl /usr/bin/X11 /usr/bin/X11/su /bin/su /usr/bin/su".
(probably one of those files will be missing but that's OK.)
--Mike