Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:19:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setuid not working on directories, or am I doing something wrong? Message-ID: <20080725091947.49a3e1b6.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4889CB3B.3050308@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080725074526.8f7ae01a.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4889CB3B.3050308@FreeBSD.org>
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In response to Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bill Moran wrote: > | $ whoami > | wmoran > | $ mkdir test2 > | $ sudo chown daemon:daemon test2 > | $ sudo chmod 6777 test2 > | $ ls -lah | grep test2 > | drwsrwsrwx 2 daemon daemon 512B Jul 25 07:40 test2 > | $ touch test2/testfile.empty > | $ ls -lah test2 > | total 8 > | drwsrwsrwx 2 daemon daemon 512B Jul 25 07:41 . > | drwxr-xr-x 59 wmoran wheel 6.0K Jul 25 07:40 .. > | -rw-r--r-- 1 wmoran daemon 0B Jul 25 07:41 testfile.empty > | > | Shouldn't testfile.empty show up as daemon:daemon? or am I > | misunderstanding something about how setuid works? > | > | This is on FreeBSD 7, but I observe the same thing on 6.3 and 6.2. > | > > Hi Bill, > > ~From what I've read, you have to take some extra steps to get this to > work. First, visit this page and search for "suiddir": > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE > > I believe you have to run a kernel with the SUIDDIR option enabled, and > then you have to mount your filesystem with the suiddir option, as > described in the mount man page above. > > Let us know if that works for you or not. That explains it, Greg. Thanks for the feedback. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023
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