From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 13:14:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21200 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 13:14:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from roguetrader.com (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21195 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 13:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandon@roguetrader.com) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA20668 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:13:31 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:13:30 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: unable to rm suid binary..? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am unable to remove an SUID binary, howcome? Specifically... -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 196608 Jul 9 19:56 rcp* # rm rcp override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for rcp? y rm: rcp: Operation not permitted # chmod u+w rcp chmod: rcp: Operation not permitted # chmod 755 rcp chmod: rcp: Operation not permitted # chmod u-s rcp chmod: rcp: Operation not permitted And so on... the filesystem is local, and is mounted rw, the directory it is in is mod 755, I am root, etc... I've exhausted all possibilities on my end. For the curious... the filesystem is mounted as: /dev/sd0s1g /u0 ufs rw 2 2 Basically, it used to be a /usr partition, but I installed into a different location and would now like to nix everything that used to be on it, but I can't just newfs it because there are about 500MB of other files I need... -Brandon Gillespie