Posted: Mon 04 Jan 2016, 21:27 Post subject:
Looking for Slackware su utility Subject description: Does anyone where where I can find su
Hello:
I'm looking for the Slackware su utility. Slacko 6.3.0 uses busybox and I would like to avoid having to chmod 4755 /bin/busybox so that another user can $(su root).
Background: can now surf as user fido but want to be able to $(su root) from urxvt window.
If I could find su then I could chmod 4755 su and leave busybox alone.
Would anyone know which Slackware package su is located in?
If not anyone know of a quicker way to find it without having to download a zillion packages?
[most search engines are not much help on this issue, perhaps topic is too obscure]
and other files for a total of about +6 MB of extra stuff.
One might also wish to check the permissions on the extra files, especially the setuid bits.
Now +6 MB of extra files is not too bad on a PC with enough memory but for an older machine with less RAM or a RPi ... every byte counts.
Things work as expected if the entire package is installed/used.
As root $(su fido) then [as fido] $(su root) work as expected.
However replacing the link $(/bin/su -> /bin/busybox) with the new /bin/su and changing all the other old links back to busybox does not seem to do anything when you type the command $(su fido).
The newer su might need something in the shadow package that does not work as expected using busybox.
It seems that one must accept the entire shadow-4.2.1-i486-1.tgz package or live with the busybox links.
I did not spend enough time testing the shadow package to determine if something might break the Slacko system (which was tested with busybox).
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