switch user error

[siva baskaran]

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

[Derek Whigham_1 · Accepted solution]

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

[freddy_21]

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

[Peter Godron]

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

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

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.

[spex]

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

[susee_sundar]

thanks to all let me check it out

siva

[Andrew Merritt_2]

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