From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 10: 3:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58401508B for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from jazz.monsterbymistake.com (jazz.monsterbymistake.com[205.207.163.189]) by mail.monsterbymistake.com (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3; 1998-Sep-25) (1409 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp id (sender ident using rfc1413) for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:53:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:14:25 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: rm suid file? 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 I don't understand something about file permissions ... and cannot find anything in the man pages so far. Here's the gist of what I was doing. hiphop# pwd / hiphop# mkdir foo hiphop# cp -p bin/rcp foo/ cp: foo/rcp: Operation not permitted hiphop# ls -l foo/* -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 208536 Jan 7 20:37 foo/rcp hiphop# rm foo/rcp override r-sr-xr-x root/wheel schg for foo/rcp? y rm: foo/rcp: Operation not permitted hiphop# !l ls -l foo/* -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 208536 Jan 7 20:37 foo/rcp hiphop# whoami root drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 10 12:41 test hiphop# uname -a FreeBSD hiphop.monsterbymistake.com 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #5: Fri Jan 7 20:51:51 EST 2000 root@hiphop.monsterbymistake.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/HIPHOP i386 hiphop# What don't I understand? thanks, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message