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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.u-net.com!news From: egan@ciweb.u-net.com (Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Setuid Problem Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:38:57 GMT Organization: U-NET limited Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32882ec6.691489491@news.u-net.com> References: <566hj6$15l@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au> Reply-To: egan@ciweb.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ciweb.u-net.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50173 comp.unix.questions:91066 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5253 username@iaccess.com.au (Real Name) wrote: >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 This only works for compiled files not editable scripts. Jim.