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Date:      Tue, 10 May 2011 22:12:50 -0400
From:      Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
Message-ID:  <4C6411DB603FA0B3B9BF0440@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110511035503.6f90f8e1.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org> <58DB9F20CBF1C01E9468FCEA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110511035503.6f90f8e1.freebsd@edvax.de>

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--As of May 11, 2011 3:55:03 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said:

> On Tue, 10 May 2011 21:43:43 -0400, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote:
>> One thought: What's the output of 'mount' for the slice you are trying
>> to  run this script from?  (Suid can be blocked on a per-mountpoint
>> basis.)
>
> Just for terminology: You mount a partition, _not_ a slice,
> so mount operates on partition (associating them to mountpoints,
> and as you correctly pointed out, mount options can include
> the prohibition of SUID execution using the "nosuid" option).

--As for the rest, it is mine.

Sorry, I've been doing a lot of switching between platforms recently, and 
mostly using virtual volume managers of one type or another.  The 
terminology starts to blur after a bit.  ;)

Daniel T. Staal

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