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.

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