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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:59:23 +0530
From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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Very unlikely. Did you try to remake the source tree? If not remake
the source tree and reinstall it. That should fix the file
permissions.


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:51:56 +0200, Geert Hendrickx
<geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> wrote:
> I'm having a really strange problem here:
> 
> None of my suid (su, X, ...) nor sgid (top, passwd, ...) binaries get
> the correct permissions to run.  So a non-root user cannot use them.
> 
> It's a freshly installed system, source upgraded to 4-STABLE.  I haven't
> made any weird or unusual configuration, it was this way from the
> beginning.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> GH
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