su: This applet requires root priviledges!

[Yann E. MORIN]

Quoting yan seiner <yan at seiner.com>:

> The problem comes in when I try to su once I ssh in as an ordinary user.
> I get:
>
> ~ $ su
> su: This applet requires root priviledges!
> ~ $
>
> How can I get root priveledges after I ssh in?

You should make the busybox suid root. Then, from what I understand, busybox
drops root privileges for those applets that don't need it, and retains those
privileges for applets that need it. There's a config option for that (have
no busybox source here for now, fiddle with the menu, I know there's one).

Now, I don't use that, that's just a wild guess (I'm always on the serial port
with a root shell).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN

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