Cannot login as root in terminal

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:46 -0800, Brian Gaynor wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:01 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> > That file size is noticeably different than Andy's although it is the
> > same size as mine.  The ownership and permissions are wrong so even if
> > it is otherwise correct it cannot get you the permissions to do a true
> > 'su'.  Note the SUID bit.
> > 
> > [jeff at eagle ~]$ ll /bin/su
> > -rwsr-xr-x  1 root root 59740 Jul 25 10:39 /bin/su
> > 
> > 
> > I would suspect that the box is "owned", or that you have otherwise
> > changed the file somehow.
> > 
> 
> Maybe not owned, I show a file size of 59740 bytes for su on my 32-bit
> systems (i686), but 78837 bytes on my 64-bit (86_X64) systems. So the
> discrepancy is most likely do to architecture.
> 
That explains the file sizes, but does *not* explain the permissions and
ownership differences.
Thus, unless he did that himself his box is likely 'owned'.

> -- 
> Brian Gaynor
> www.pmccorp.com
> FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
> canis 15:40:59 up 1:21, 1 user, 
> load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.07 
> 
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