From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 14:41:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22858 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 14:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22844 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 14:41:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01779; Wed, 13 May 1998 14:41:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Brown cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running quota(1) with setuid In-Reply-To: <35F16A0C.28ED@asgard.slcc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message