owner of /etc /boot and / (related to can't su thread???)

[Paul Howarth]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 08.07.2005 schrieb Mike McCarty um 16:05:
> 
> 
>>>But he said he couldn't "su".  Can you login as root in a virtual
>>>console?
> 
> 
>>Erm, I think you have your attributions wrong. It was "related..." not
>>"part of..." the "can't su thread". I don't see where he can't su.
> 
> 
>>Mike
> 
> 
> 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

Paul.