su failures

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1 total messages Started by Craig Ruff Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:30

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Author: Craig Ruff
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:30

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I've come across a failure of the su command to actually set the uid,
but doesn't report the failure.  The situation is this:

A directory on an NFS mounted file system (exported rw, no restrictions)
is owned by me, owned by a group that my Indigo doesn't know about, is
mode 2750.

drwxr-s---   2 cruff    1558         512 Jan 28 09:22 .

I am not a member of group 1558 as far as my Indigo knows, either.  When
inside this directory, a plain 'su' command reads the root password but fails
to set uid=0 and doesn't say anything.  Is does return status 1, however.
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Craig Ruff      	NCAR			cruff@ncar.ucar.edu
(303) 497-1211  	P.O. Box 3000
			Boulder, CO  80307

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