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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA575 ; Fri, 05 Feb 93 04:01:55 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!demon!wonderland!alice!peter From: peter@wonderland.org (Peter Galbavy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: su problems. Date: 2 Feb 1993 18:24:59 GMT Organization: Wonderland, London, Engalnd Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kme9r$l1@humpty.wonderland.org> References: <1kgt8iINNqmo@nanny.cradle.titech.ac.jp> Reply-To: peter@wonderland.org NNTP-Posting-Host: wonderland.org In article 1kgt8iINNqmo@nanny.cradle.titech.ac.jp, nakamura@cradle.titech.ac.jp (Kazushi NAKAMURA) writes: >In article <C1JBwH.E0A@demon.co.uk> peter@alice.wonderland.org writes: >> On a similar note "su -c command" doesn;t seem to work for me, or am I >> being stupid ? > > Then,check the setuid bit of /bin/su. > v >-rwsr-xr-x 1 root ... /bin/su* > ^this > > If not,type "chmod u+s /bin/su" as root. People told me to RTFM and lo and behold, the -c option is not supported. Use: echo command | su ... instead. Thanks all, --- Peter Galbavy e-mail: P.Galbavy@wonderland.org Wonderland "Nothing's forgotten. Nothing's ever forgotten."