Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!jar From: jar@ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: xterm setuid problems. Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 16:27:34 GMT Article-I.D.: gyda.JAR.91May14182723 References: Sender: jar@ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: jc@raven.bu.edu's message of 14 May 91 06: 57:35 GMT In article jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes: 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.... How does your /etc/fstab look? Do you have a 'nosuid' mount parameter tucked away somewhere? -- Jo Are Rosland jar@ifi.uio.no