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DrWilken	2010-12-23 , 17:43
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Originally Posted by shailesh

But soon after opening the terminal if i execute su - (it doesnt work)
~$su -
su: must be suid to work properly

not sure if still i am doing something wrong

I see... I'm not sure this is something I would want to do, but the error message says that the 'su' binary isn't suid which can be solved by doing (as root - i.e. run 'sudo gainroot' or just 'root'):

Code:

chmod u+s /bin/su

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