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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:54:10 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
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Subject: Re: suid/sgid problem
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:22:53PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx typed:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:59:23AM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes I did (4-STABLE).  
> 
> And the files DO have the correct bits (suid/sgid) set.  But they seem
> to have no effect.  

Is the partition these files are on by any chance mounted NOSUID ?

ruben@ei:/home/ruben> mount | grep nosuid
/dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, nodev, nosuid, soft-updates)
/dev/ar0s1d on /usr/mirror (ufs, NFS exported, local, nodev, nosuid, soft-updates)

Ruben