SuSe 10.1 and filePro 5.0.14D4

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Tue Jul 18 10:23:39 PDT 2006


Quoting Fairlight (Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:06:39 -0400):

> 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?

Okay, so I took the lazy way out.  :-)

The Linux masters are made at a different office, by a different
person, on a system I don't normally access.  Yes, I could have
asked him directly, but I was already typing my reply to Nancy.

> > 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.

According to the documentation on chown (the program, not the system
call), the behavior depends on how the O/S handles the system call,
as it is not a behavior that is built in to the chown program itself.

And does the nosuid flag mean that the setuid bit cannot be set, or
does it mean that it is to be ignored?

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