Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: xterm setuid problems. Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 06:57:35 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 31 System: SunOS 4.1.1 on SparcStation2 with X11R4 Problem: Error messages generated by xterm and xload on client machine. We have one SparcStation2 server and a client which NFS's the the local partition. However, when either xterm or xload is started on the client, the following messages are generated: May 14 02:10:45 pitch vmunix: xload, uid 23: setuid execution not allowed May 14 02:10:46 pitch vmunix: xterm, uid 23: setuid execution not allowed I did export the partition with the -root parameter as follows: /usr1 -root=pitch.bu.edu this did not fix the problem. We are not running NIS so on both machines there exists /etc/passwd which is a replica of the other.... Any ideas? jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)