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~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (21:37) #201
Paul Terry Walhus writes: > > What's the fix for this: > > www# webuser hugo > This program must be installed setuid root As root, in the directory where webuser is, do: chown root webuser chmod 4711 webuser
~terry@www.spring.com Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (22:35) #202
No cigar yet! www# cd /usr/bbs www# ls .cflist censored license tmp .software.cf cflink maillist usagelog .test.cf conflist maillist.doc www .yapp.cf conflist.dist man yapp.conf Install confs menu yapp3.0.8-dist.tar LICENSE desclist part yappthal.txt README errorlog permissions.txt bin etc rc cbf.16906 help rc.orig www# cd bin www# ls bbs cfcreate cfdelete cppart webuser www# chown root webuser www# chmod 4711 webuser www# webuser hugo This program must be installed setuid root www# chmod 471 webuser www# webuser hugo This program must be installed setuid root www# webuser doug This program must be installed setuid root www# pwd /usr/bbs/bin www#
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (09:18) #203
Paul Terry Walhus writes: > www# cd /usr/bbs > www# cd bin > www# chown root webuser > www# chmod 4711 webuser > www# webuser hugo > This program must be installed setuid root If you do "which webuser", you'll notice that running "webuser" with no path prefix runs /usr/local/bin/webuser, not /usr/bbs/bin/webuser. > % which webuser > /usr/local/bin/webuser > % ls -l /usr/local/bin/webuser > -rwsr-xr-x 1 cfadm wheel 106496 Aug 10 14:31 /usr/local/bin/webuser As you can see, the permissions are correct (-rwsr-xr-x = 4711), but it isn't owned by root, which is the problem.
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