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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:11:56 PST
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SUID bits 
Message-ID:  <9512141611.AA04698@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 13:39:50 PST." <199512062139.NAA17816@corbin.Root.COM> 

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> >I cannot get SUID to work on files in 2.1R.  In other unixes I would 
> >chmod 4755 filename.
> >
> >I do here- I see the s - but when invoked it gives permission errors as 
> >though there were no suid bit set.
> >
> >Is there some other step that has to be done?
> 
>    What are you trying to chmod? Shell scripts are not allowed to be SUID for
> security reasons.
> 
> -DG

I found this out...we should have a configuration option to enable it.

At home with two machine networked, I'm not really concerned about security.


-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom





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