topic Re: su command not found. in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

su command not found.

Bruno Vilardo — Thu, 06 May 2004 07:29:44 GMT

HEllo all,

Today i tried to login as another user using the su command but i am having the following error .But couple of days ago i could run the command perfectly and i now i can not.

# su -
ksh: su: not found

Can anyone help me?
TIA
Regards
BRu

Re: su command not found.

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Thu, 06 May 2004 08:26:33 GMT

Hi Bruno,

this command should be in /bin
check PATH valriable and whether /bin/su exists.

greetings,

Michael

Re: su command not found.

Bruno Vilardo — Thu, 06 May 2004 08:34:36 GMT

Hey Michael,

IÂ´ve checked the /bin directory and there is no "su" there ... Why ?

I also checked the PATH variable and itÂ´s apparently OKAY.

Any other clues ?

Thanks

Br

Re: su command not found.

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Thu, 06 May 2004 08:41:44 GMT

Hi,

looks like someone deleted it. Restore from backup or from another machine with the same os release.

find / -name su -print
Any place else perhaps?

greetings,

Michael

Re: su command not found.

Bruno Vilardo — Thu, 06 May 2004 08:59:15 GMT

Thanks man .

But now i just wonder who the hell deleted this command ..
Is there a way to know who deleted it ?

IÂ´ve used find to look for the command but no success .
I am restoring SU from an backup.

THanks a lot man

I appreciate . Here are some points for you ..

Regards

Bru

Re: su command not found.

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Thu, 06 May 2004 10:00:28 GMT

Hi,

if you are lucky you find it in the shell history of the root user, but that's pure luck.

Michael

Re: su command not found.

Yong_7 — Thu, 13 May 2004 09:58:04 GMT

Hi
with the assistance of login footprints.
# more /.sh_history
# last | more

Good Luck ! man

YJ

Re: su command not found.

Bruno Vilardo — Thu, 13 May 2004 12:35:20 GMT

Hey guys ,

I restore the command and it worked fine.
I got the person resposible for making the "su" command disappear.
There is another person that access the server from a different state and he also does some administration tasks.
He renamed the su command to zz ..
He said our boss told him to do that , i called up the boss and explain him the situation. THey were worried about security , using the "su" command to loggin as a different user and enter on the ERP system to mess up something.
But i explain that the only personsthat has full access are I and the other guy that dissapearwith the "su" command.

But anyway,

Thanks a lot guys , i am really learning many stuff in this forum.

Regards

Bruno