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From: TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC/NFS 3.0.1 Bug with setuid/setgid
Message-ID: <90229.101230TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 17 Aug 90 15:12:30 GMT
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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>>#PC/NFS does not recognize that a parent directory has s-bits. Thus, a
>>#new made directory (with md in DOS) has wrong group id. To avoid this,
>>#I use 'rsh host mkdir path' at the moment, but thats not nice...

>Unfortunately it's not really patchable. It will be fixed in the next
>release, which may or may not be a consolation...

What about a chgrp command and how about setuid programs actually running
under the owner's name? :-)


Thomas Dwyer III                            TOMIII   @ MTUS5.BITNET
Network Programmer                          DWYERIII @ MTUS5.BITNET
Computing Technology Services
Michigan Technological University