From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 10:52:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24670 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:52:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24511 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@meno.uchicago.edu) Received: from meno.uchicago.edu (meno [128.135.21.34]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA10229 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:51:53 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by meno.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.7.3) id MAA02733 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:51:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:51:50 -0600 (CST) From: stephen farrell Message-Id: <199803041851.MAA02733@meno.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok... maybe i've done something immeasurably stupid but i am totally stumped right now. suid binaries just stopped working on my system. it does not appear that they assume the new permissions they are supposed to. this includes mail, su, netstat, top, etc etc. i have tried (1) logging on as another user (2) turning off nis (3) creating a new user totally separate from nis (4) going back to kernel.GENERIC (i.e., rebooting) but to no avail. i just cvsuped and am making a new kernel... for what that's worth. this happened toa running system, out of the blue. first sign was that su stopped working. i've inspected the binaries and files in question and the suid bit is on, the group is correct, etc. thanks in advance for any help--also please cc: steve@farrell.org, as i filter the mailing list someplace where i might not get your response quickly under these circumstances. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message