On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> "Password:su setuid: permission denied."
Are you sure that su is setuid root?
It should look like this (if I'm not mistaken?):
24 -rws--x--x 1 root bin 24576 Dec 30 1997 /usr/bin/su*
^
The s is the key.