[colug-432] su not working

[Richard Hornsby]

Sorry I missed the solution. Disregard my last.

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On Feb 21, 2011, at 16:26, Vince Herried <vince at planetvince.info> wrote:

> The problem was some how the 's' bit in /bin/su
> got turned off.
> 
> All is right with the world...
> On,  I'm getting old.  I should have thought about the number
> of characters more before posting it...  My recolection
> is that since the /etc/shadow file... the passwords are stored
> with a one way hash.  One that I'm familiar with, md5sume creates
> 32 bit hash, regardless of what u give it.
> 
> Vince the happy Linux guy.