When I su into root or any other user I receive the following error 'su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted'. What could be the cause of this?

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The most common cause of this error message is due to wrong SUID set on the user permissions for /bin/su or /usr/bin/su.

When you do an ls -lt /bin/su you should see the following permissions:

-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        47522 Aug 12  2003 /bin/su

-rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:su_exec_t:s0 75736 May 20  2020 /us...

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