Building a new su binary
So your distribution comes with an su binary that depends on pam and you
just want a simple su binary that can be used in a chroot environment? Well
here's how to build a new one:
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
cd coreutils-5.0
./configure
make
cp src/su /the/place/where/I/want/my/shiny/new/su/binary/installed
BAM!