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/bin/su: Permission denied.When I look in /bin dir there are 3 areas that look weird, this is an extract from /bin dir:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 60080 Mar 7 2000 ps d-ws--x--T 797 19807 3098 172049163 Jan 1 1970 pwd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Aug 23 2002 red -> ed -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 835 Mar 7 2000 remadmin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20240 Mar 8 2000 rm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6796 Mar 8 2000 rmdir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 886424 Mar 1 2000 rpm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Aug 23 2002 rvi -> vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Aug 23 2002 rview -> vi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44880 Feb 7 2000 sed -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 15844 Feb 7 2000 setserial lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 23 2002 sh -> bash ?r-S--x--- 3098 14024 2663 4294967295 Jul 14 1970 sleep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27632 Feb 7 2000 sort -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26668 Mar 7 2000 stty ?rw------- 62082 1664 262 2029158913 Oct 5 1998 suYou can see the pwd dir, sleep and su are not what they are meant to be. I can't reboot the box; it will have to be a hard reboot. I am running an Oracle DB on this box which is running fine and want to know if the Linux box will boot up. All things are running okay on the Linux box as well as the Oracle DB -- I just can't log in as root. As Oracle user I can vi, etc.
Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.
It is extremely tough to determine your problem from looking at a director map. It appears that some how you have corrupted your root password. I would try to reset the root password or refresh the base and reset the root password that way. Good luck!
This was first published in February 2004
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