xterm setuid problems.

James Cameron jc at raven.bu.edu
Wed May 15 03:21:16 AEST 1991



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 at 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
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