From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 08:13:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA11629 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA11620 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:13:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15036(3)>; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:12:02 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04764; Thu, 14 Dec 95 11:12:00 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04698; Thu, 14 Dec 95 11:11:58 EST Message-Id: <9512141611.AA04698@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: davidg@root.com Cc: Stephen Hovey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID bits In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 13:39:50 PST." <199512062139.NAA17816@corbin.Root.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:11:56 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >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