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Date:      Wed, 13 May 1998 14:41:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Scott Brown <skb@asgard.slcc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Running quota(1) with setuid
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513144108.1690O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35F16A0C.28ED@asgard.slcc.edu>

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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Scott Brown wrote:

> I'm trying to run quota(1) as root (as part of a CGI script), but I'm
> not getting the results I want.  I've done "chmod 4755 quota", which in
> theory should allow any user to look at any other user's quota info, but
> quota still gives me the "permission denied" error.  What am I missing?

Are you sure you're running the right quota binary?  Try giving an
explicit path.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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