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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
