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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:20:45 +0100
From:      Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>
To:        Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chmod: Operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <41ED294D.6040607@orchid.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050118145858.GA5984@gardnerbell.ca>
References:  <20050118145858.GA5984@gardnerbell.ca>

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Gardner Bell wrote:
> After rebuilding world last night I can no longer chmod some system
> binaries that I don't need.  When attemtping to do so I get a permission denied. 
> root@Spartan# chmod 000 /bin/rcp
> chmod: /bin/rcp: Operation not permitted.
> 
> root@spartan# chmod 000 /bin/rlogin
> chmod: /bin/rlogin: Operation not permitted
> 
> The only binaries this seems to be happening with are the ones used
> for remote operations.  Ie: rcp, rlogin, rsh, opieinfo, etc.  I
> followed the complete instructions in the handbook when rebuilding
> world so I don't think that could be the problem.  But I did run the
> following after the system booted correctly. 

# ls -lo /bin/rcp
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  schg 18388 Jan 10 22:49 /bin/rcp

     notice "schg" up here ^^^^

Check chlags(1) manpage for more information.

Oh, btw. "which rlogin" gives me "/usr/bin/rlogin" on 5.3-RELEASE. Is
that a typo in your message?


Regards,

Karol

-- 
Karol Kwiatkowski  <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>



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