xterm setuid problems.

[Jo Are Rosland]

In article <JC.91May14025735 at raven.bu.edu> jc at 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?
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Jo Are Rosland
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