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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: It works everywhere else, but not on AIX
Message-ID: <26539@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 91 19:49:57 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.182214.10391@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr16.045432.10283@ibmpa,awdpa.ibm.com> <1991Apr16.183547@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
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In <1991Apr16.183547@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> bob@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Bob Andrews) writes:

>I found that df works just fine...as long as user bin has access to the
>directory you were cd'ed into.  If not, well, df is setuid to bin, and
>it fails.

Ahhh, sooooo.... any idea *why* df would be setuid bin?  
nasssty behaviour, that.  

<doublesigh>

- Glenn R. Stone
glenns@eas.gatech.edu