NAS Forum

Hello everybody

I 've a SohoNas for about 3 years, flashed with Tinky firmware (from Treepleks), working well in nfs until the supply burnt about 1 year ago. At that time I replaced it by a cheap NAS1000, which i also flashed with the Tinky, then just reformatting the first partition of the SohoNas disk, thus keeping all my data.

Recently however, I found a used supply for 6 €, so, just for fun,( well not only, I'd like to mirror my data), I plugged an old 80 GO DD in the SohoNas and restart it. Of course, like the first time, I had to exchange the dropbearmulti that is corrupted in the Treepleks flash, then install the missing libutil.so.1, all done by direct connexion to the PC through USB. See link to forum.hardware.fr for reference.
Everything works fine again (nfs, ssh, web) but I cannot become root using su -. I always receive the message :


whichever the normal account I start from. I first checked that they are both correctly registered in the wheel group. I finally discovered that /bin/busybox which provides su (and in fact almost all commands) has not its set UID , i.e. the unix rights are


which I also verified from the NAS1000. After connecting directly as root through ssh (with the by default password from the treepleks firmware, don't forget to change it later), i could finally change the rights with


and su works fine again. I just publish that story, as awareness of rights administration under Linux is not so widely spread.

So in the hope it will help someone else.