On 2019-07-25 02:47:10 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 25 July 2019 03:01:17 Mike Bird wrote:
> > On Wed July 24 2019 23:36:42 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > > > $ ps ufax | grep tdesu
> >
> > Unfortunately that doesn't show the user running /usr/bin/X11/su.
> >
> > However it seems possible that your su has lost its suid bit.
> >
> > Please do "ls -dl /usr/bin/X11 /usr/bin/X11/su /bin/su /usr/bin/su".
> > (probably one of those files will be missing but that's OK.)
> >
> > --Mike
>
> With all the hoorah about tdesu, I just tried it, found it worthless. It
> asks for the root password on a system that has no root passwd, I do
> everything that needs root with a sudo.  Sigh.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

	Some distros (e.g. Ubuntu) discourage use of su, others (e.g. OpenSuSE)
don't.