From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 15:01:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA00515 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00504 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id QAA19273; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:01:58 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199512062301.QAA19273@intele.net> Subject: Re: SUID bits To: shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:01:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Hovey" at Dec 6, 95 03:03:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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? Is the file you're trying to make suid on a filesystem that is mounted nosuid? (This option did not exist in older unix systems.) -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet