--=-pHhe8lq+DHOnmqVW0hh/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hmm. Nope. It looks right. ls -al /bin/su -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 24068 Feb 23 06:56 /bin/su I think I remember fixing this on another computer awhile ago. I wish I could remember how though. How? On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 22:31, der.hans wrote: > Am 16. Mar, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bryce C so: >=20 > > Can someone tell my why I get > > su: Permission denied > > Sorry. > > when I try and su to root on my nice, clean gentoo install? More to th= e > > point, can someone tell me how to fix this please? >=20 > Look at the perms on /bin/su. Looks like you're missing some execute bits= . > It should be 4755, -rwsr-xr-x, with both owner and group being root. >=20 > Gentoo might've reduced the perms for security reasons. Maybe they're try= ing > to push using sudo. >=20 > ciao, >=20 > der.hans --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-pHhe8lq+DHOnmqVW0hh/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA+dWAy/wbq/C6yyPcRAp3nAKCFqcss7sHdROkDoHlpeyIthjzs7ACgmpFB V7gx4wlELd82MoLSe36kneg= =Bie5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pHhe8lq+DHOnmqVW0hh/--