@acne said:
rwsr-xr-x here on a Debian sarge.
By the way, one should not use su but sudo, as sudoers use their own password instead of having to share the One Root Password. The admin may restrict as well the commands a sudoer may run as another user.
Ditto for Debian etch.
To enforce this line of thinking on all of the boxes I administer, one of the first things I do once I confirm that sudo is working properly is the following, if it hasn't already been done:
- Log in as myself.
- su to root
- Set root's password to a random 64-character string.
- exit
Then I move on with things. If I ever absolutely need a root console (which should rarely--if ever--happen), sudo su -
works quite well.