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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!mozz.unh.edu!toto.plymouth.edu!wiz.plymouth.edu!ted From: ted@wiz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 'su' in FreeBSD sucks!!! Date: 10 Apr 1996 03:16:36 GMT Organization: Plymouth State College -- Plymouth, NH Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4kf96k$glt@toto.plymouth.edu> References: <4kdduc$3bb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ness.plymouth.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hee-Joon Park (h-park7@ehsn12.cen.uiuc.edu) wrote: : Here's the problem. : Developers for FreeBSD were I guess, security-conscious, looking : at the su program. : Only certain users belonging to a certain group(say, wheel, for example) : can run su. : Unfortunately, not knowing this "security-conscious" feature of : su in FreeBSD ahead of time, i did something silly. Sorry, I can't resist this.... Your are complaining that FreeBSD is too secure for you? If Linux lets just anyone su to root it is insecure... Now for the Fix. CTRL-ALT-DEL this should allow you to reboot cleanly. Boot single user (ie. use the -s flag at boot). You will be prompted for a shell (use /bin/csh) do (mount /usr) I assume you shutdown cleanly otherwise you will have to fsck the /usr partition. do: (vipw) and edit the entry for root to again be /bin/sh needs special books published (It is different than other Unix'es).