26 Jul
2019
26 Jul
'19
1:52 a.m.
On 2019-07-25 02:47:10 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 25 July 2019 03:01:17 Mike Bird wrote:
On Wed July 24 2019 23:36:42 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
$ 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
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
Some distros (e.g. Ubuntu) discourage use of su, others (e.g. OpenSuSE) don't.