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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!sleipnir.iaccess.com.au!news From: phil@iaccess.com.au (Phillip Krokidis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Setuid Problem Date: 11 Nov 1996 16:37:24 GMT Organization: Internet Access Australia Lines: 18 Message-ID: <567ko8$6dd@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: tyrport4.iaccess.com.au X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50128 comp.unix.questions:91022 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5247 Hello, Im having problems getting setuid to work on a bsdi 1.1 system I have set the owner of a file as root and the "s" bit as follows: -rwsrwxr-x 1 root wheel 1815 Nov 3 22:59 file.pl If I try to run the program by sending email to an alias in the sendmail /etc/aliases file ie. alias: "|/path_to_file/file.pl" the program will not run as root but as daemon with effective and real id of "1". Can anyone suggest a way to get this working? Thanks, Phil phil@iaccess.com.au