[Voyage-linux] Problems with su

[Rich E Neese]

On 12/18/2011 10:32 PM, Rudolf Ladyzhenskii wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I installed latest Voyage Linux (v0.8) on PC Engines ALIX6 board.
>
> I have created a non-root user and I am logged in as one. Now, I want
> to run 'su' command. Error I am getting is "Authentication failure'
> and I am sure I am entering password correctly.
> Did some research on the net and people suggest that problem is SUID
> bit in /bin/su
> So, I set this bit with chmod (from serial console).
>
> Attempt to run 'su' results in different error:
> setgid: Operation not permitted
>
> /var/log/auth.log shows:
> Dec 19 03:31:50 voyage su[3684]: Successful su for root by symstream
> Dec 19 03:31:50 voyage su[3684]: + /dev/pts/1 symstream:root
> Dec 19 03:31:50 voyage su[3684]: bad group ID `0' for user `root': Operation not
>  permitted
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Rudolf
>
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as a user you have to run sudo. apt-get install sudo