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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: none
From:       stephen farrell <stephen () farrell ! org>
Date:       1998-03-04 19:21:49
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Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> writes:

> On Mar 03, 1998 at 12:51:50PM -0600, stephen farrell wrote:
> > ok... maybe i've done something immeasurably stupid but i am totally
> > stumped right now.  suid binaries just stopped working on my system.
> > it does not appear that they assume the new permissions they are
> > supposed to.  this includes mail, su, netstat, top, etc etc.
> 
> Are you sure that you haven't mounted the filesystems nosuid?

Ah--yes of course that was it (thanks! duh!)

The question now is why did it get set to nosuid?  It appears that
mounting /usr/ports nosuid made /usr nosuid (?!).  Is that what
should happen?  It took me totally by surprise (obviously =)

--

Steve Farrell


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