From: Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
Date: 07/14/92 

From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: Re: su,terminal,.emacs ?'s
Date: 14 Jul 1992 17:23:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul14.053517.23946@athena.mit.edu>, tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree) writes:
> I'm trying to get away from the practise of logging in as root
> but I find I cannot use su unless I make it suid.... Is this the correct
> practise?

All propgrams than need to change the uid of someone must be running
as root. Therefore it's required to 'chmod u+s su' (and check that the
owner is root too)

Nicolai 

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