From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 5:32:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC50337B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust233.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.233] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15yvTk-00020b-00; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:32:25 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yvSm-00083g-00; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:31:24 +0000 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:31:23 +0000 From: setantae To: Nick Rogness Cc: Peter Brezny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: application execution permissions. Message-ID: <20011031133123.A30891@rhadamanth> Mail-Followup-To: setantae , Nick Rogness , Peter Brezny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nick@rogness.net on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:00:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:00:39PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Peter Brezny wrote: > > > I've installed tmetric but non root users arn't able to use it. > > > > What do I need to do to enable tmetric usage by non root users? > > > > Make it suid root. As it appears to need to write to a socket. And if you do that, change the owner to root as well. You really don't want apache to be able to write to a setuid root binary. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nogroup 11100 Aug 30 08:48 /usr/local/sbin/tmetric Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message