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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
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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.