From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 17: 4:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bekool.com (ns2.netquick.net [216.48.34.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE57314CB9 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trouble@hackfurby.com) Received: from bastille.netquick.net ([216.48.32.159] helo=hackfurby.com) by bekool.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11K9n8-000FuU-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:22:50 +0000 Message-ID: <37C5EAEF.BFD84F1C@hackfurby.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:33:36 -0500 From: TrouBle Reply-To: trouble@hackfurby.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-19990816-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: pw and pwd_mkdb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG pw and pwd_mkdb okay i have a problem..... both pw and pwd_mkdb require setuid 0 to run, ummm this doesnt work in a chrooted filesystem very well, say im modifying and virtual password file, with a perl script, and i want to call pw, to make the master.passwd file mods, then call pwd_mkdb to rebuild the chrooted virtual database.... ummm im getting errors from something that claim cant setuid in my apache logs when I RUN THE SCRIPT.... is there an easy way to disable setuid checks in these two programs ??? then distribute them to the virtual filesystem ???? thanks for much needed answerrs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message