Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: xterm setuid problems. Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 17:21:16 GMT References: Sender: news@bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 34 In-reply-to: jc@raven.bu.edu's message of 14 May 91 06:57:35 GMT I posted the below message which has been easily solved. *8-) (Warning to all new SysAdmins: don't allow people to have root access when you are setting up the system....can confuse the heck out of you.) >>>>> On 14 May 91 06:57:35 GMT, jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) said: [..deleted unnecessary lines...] ||> System: SunOS 4.1.1 on SparcStation2 with X11R4 ||> 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 ||> Any ideas? ||> jc For some strange reason, one of the other users switched the /etc/fstab to be nosuid. I knew *I* had not done it, and simply should have checked it before posting. Thanks for all the help people to remind me to check it. 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.)