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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!news.hawaii.edu!wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu!newsham
  3. From: newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham)
  4. Subject: Re: Misc. AmigaMINIX questions
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep2.220141.2234@news.Hawaii.Edu>
  6. Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
  8. Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
  9. References: <1992Sep1.062241.5410@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au> <Btx307.ELF@cs.vu.nl>
  10. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:01:41 GMT
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  13. In article <Btx307.ELF@cs.vu.nl> sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven) writes:
  14. >dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn) writes:
  15. >
  16. >>su has given me problems. Ideally I want to be able to su to root from my
  17. >>user account. However, su never seems to give me root privileges. Any
  18. >>suggestions?
  19. >
  20. sounds like you have your su without the suid bit on..
  21. su must be suid root to be able to change your uid.
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