Date: 04 Mar 1998 13:21:49 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: freebsd questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: none Message-ID: <87d8g2l0s2.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Jonathan Lemon's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:01:09 -0600" References: <199803041851.MAA02733@meno.uchicago.edu> <19980304130109.11792@right.PCS>
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Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> 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
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