Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:11:56 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: davidg@root.com Cc: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID bits Message-ID: <9512141611.AA04698@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 13:39:50 PST." <199512062139.NAA17816@corbin.Root.COM>
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> >I cannot get SUID to work on files in 2.1R. In other unixes I would > >chmod 4755 filename. > > > >I do here- I see the s - but when invoked it gives permission errors as > >though there were no suid bit set. > > > >Is there some other step that has to be done? > > What are you trying to chmod? Shell scripts are not allowed to be SUID for > security reasons. > > -DG I found this out...we should have a configuration option to enable it. At home with two machine networked, I'm not really concerned about security. -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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