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From: cla@dobag.in-berlin.de (Christian Lampl)
Subject: Re: su
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 13:38:40 GMT
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dieter flunkert <d_flunkert@cen.jrc.it> writes:

>Hey all,
>I have a question concerning su.  If I use su which is on my harddisk it works fine.
>But if I use the copy I have on /tmp on the ram disk, it doesn't work.  It askes
>for the password, but after typing in the right one, I'm still not root.
>Any ideas?

>Dieter

>Dieter Flunkert		d_flunkert@cen.jrc.it

Try :
$ cd /tmp
$ chmod 4755 su

That must be all !!!

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