ssu: Operation not permitted about ssu HOT 10 CLOSED

Do what usage says: https://github.com/illiliti/ssu#usage. If you did already, make sure that ssu is owned by root and that permissions are set correctly.

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Did what usage heading said with the following commands ("g" is my user name):

sudo chown root:g /usr
sudo chmod 4754 /usr

And with:

sudo chown root:g /usr/bin/ssu
sudo chmod 4754 /usr/bin/ssu

But I'm still getting the error.

I've built the program using make || make CC=cc again (I've deleted ssu and ssu.o) and then sudo make PREFIX=/usr install (this is the output for the second command:

mkdir -p     /usr/bin
cp    -f ssu /usr/bin
chown root:wheel /usr/bin/ssu
chown: invalid group: ‘root:wheel’
make: *** [Makefile:24: install] Error 1

By the way, when I run commands with sudo before ssu, it works fine. I think I set the wrong permissions, but I don't know which ones

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Why /usr and /etc? Where did you get these paths? You need to set permissions to ssu binary /usr/bin/ssu, not to some random paths.

"g" must be the group you are in, not username.

this is the output for the second command:

This error is harmless.

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Why /usr and /etc?

Updated my comment, pasted the wrong command 😓

"g" must be the group you are in, not username.

"g" is shown in groups

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What does id -gn print?

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g

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Then these commands should make ssu work(assuming that ssu exists in /usr/bin/):

sudo chown root:g /usr/bin/ssu
sudo chmod 4754 /usr/bin/ssu

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They don't. ssu is in /usr/bin

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If ssu is in /usr/bin, then I don't see why they wouldn't work.

Or rather, they must work in that case.

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Had to make a clean install for it to work

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