SuSe 10.1 and filePro 5.0.14D4

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Jul 18 10:06:39 PDT 2006


This public service announcement was brought to you by Kenneth Brody:
> The script has been fixed since the 5.0.14 release.  (Can someone
> please verify that the latest 5.6 has the fix in it?)

No offense, but you're lead developer the company releasing it and can't
tell?

> The problem is that chown will reset the setuid bit.  This is for
> security reasons, to prevent the setuid bit from applying to the
> new uid, and is probably documented on the chown man page.

There's another reason it could possibly fail.  Could be installing to an
NFS partition with nosuid set.  Not as likely, but still possible.

mark->


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