Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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: On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:57:33AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote:
:> Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:57:33AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote:
> Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> : I'm not sure about mount, but it seems to need root permission to be
> : able to tell the kernel to mount/umount a filesystem (if i understand
> : these sources correctly... ;)
>
>
> Unless
xr-x
: I checked out `info chmod' and various other places, including a few books
: I have and came up empty on what the plain-english meaning of `4000 Set
: user ID on execution' means. I checked the archives and only came up with
: answers to the same question that consisted solely of &qu
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm not sure about mount, but it seems to need root permission to be
: able to tell the kernel to mount/umount a filesystem (if i understand
: these sources correctly... ;)
Unless you give user access in /etc/fstab.
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*** Running Debia
> > [set-uid theory]
> OK, I understand the what you've said above, but give me an example. I have
> seen what happens when /bin/su is not setuid, but WHY does it have to be
> like that, and WHY does it do what it does when it's not setuid? I've seen
> a lot of other binaries in this predicament
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 06:30:08PM -0400, Brian Clark wrote:
[[explanation of "what suid is" snipped]]
>
> OK, I understand the what you've said above, but give me an example. I have
> seen what happens when /bin/su is not setuid, but WHY does it have to be
> like that, and WHY does it do what i
Oswald Buddenhagen said:
>> Can anyone explain this to me in plain english? Like, what the difference
>> is between chmod 4750 and chmod 750 -- and how it effects the files'
>> execution?
>
> every user has an id, as you probably know.
> if the file is executed normally (ie, permissions are 750)
> Can anyone explain this to me in plain english? Like, what the difference
> is between chmod 4750 and chmod 750 -- and how it effects the files'
> execution?
>
every user has an id, as you probably know.
if the file is executed normally (ie, permissions are 750), then the
program runs with th
a few books
I have and came up empty on what the plain-english meaning of `4000 Set
user ID on execution' means. I checked the archives and only came up with
answers to the same question that consisted solely of "s - Set user ID or
group ID on execution," but NOT what differen
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