topic Re: switch user error in Operating System - HP-UX

switch user error

siva baskaran — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:23:14 GMT

when i issuing su - command the error is giving like jwhat i have attached herewith so please guid me what i have to do in this case

thanks
siva

Re: switch user error

Derek Whigham_1 — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:29:53 GMT

Check permissions of /usr/bin/su. They should be as follows:

-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin su and on the /usr and /usr/bin directories

Re: switch user error

freddy_21 — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:30:10 GMT

check permissin from file su

pegasus:/>ll /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 28672 Aug 2 2005 /usr/bin/su
pegasus:/>

if permission not same with -r-sr-xr-x

please change with
# chmod 04555 /usr/bin/su

and try again

thanks
freddy

Re: switch user error

Peter Godron — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:31:16 GMT

Siva,
check the protections on /usr/bin/su
should be
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin
see

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=565976

Re: switch user error

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:32:25 GMT

Siva,

Please check those things as stated above:

/etc/passwd, /usr/bin/login, & /usr/bin/su they should be 4555 to get the suid bit set. And /etc/group should be root sys

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: switch user error

spex — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:32:52 GMT

Siva,

It's also possible there's an error in /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group. Check out this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=82841

PCS

Re: switch user error

susee_sundar — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:22:03 GMT

thanks to all let me check it out

siva

Re: switch user error

Andrew Merritt_2 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:36:20 GMT

Hi Siva,
Just a couple of general points, as the most likely answers have been given (permissions on /usr/bin/su). It would help if you state which version of HP-UX you are running.

Also, I'd suggest you really don't need to post a 35k MS Word document in order to show 6 lines of text which could have been included in the message.

Andrew