From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 11:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01975 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:22:11 -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 LAA01882 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA10433; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:21:51 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA00350; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:21:49 -0600 (CST) To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: none References: <199803041851.MAA02733@meno.uchicago.edu> <19980304130109.11792@right.PCS> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 04 Mar 1998 13:21:49 -0600 In-Reply-To: Jonathan Lemon's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:01:09 -0600" Message-ID: <87d8g2l0s2.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon writes: > On Mar 03, 1998 at 12:51:50PM -0600, stephen farrell wrote: > > 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. > > Are you sure that you haven't mounted the filesystems nosuid? Ah--yes of course that was it (thanks! duh!) The question now is why did it get set to nosuid? It appears that mounting /usr/ports nosuid made /usr nosuid (?!). Is that what should happen? It took me totally by surprise (obviously =) -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message