That's exactly what it was. I forgot that mounting "defaults,user,exec" automatically gives you nosuid. I deleted user,exec and now I'm fine. That fixed several problems. Thanks. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Johansson" To: "John Scott" ; Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] SUID Problem

Could it be that you've mounted the file system with option nosuid?!

regards Anders

On Sunday 05 August 2001 22:35, John Scott wrote:

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I have a problem with suid programs. First it was vmware. It must run suid root. My user account can't run it because it says "VMware must be run suid root." I verified that it is. ls -l /usr/bin/vmware yields: rwsr-sr-x root root /usr/bin/vmware

Then I tried using sudo to perform some other operations and I got the error: "Sorry, sudo must be run suid root." I verified that it is suid as well. What could cause this?

John

I thought about that, but works fine as is. Thanks again. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Johansson" To: "John Scott" ; Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:26 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] SUID Problem

Another option, if you want to have user rights to mounting, is to add suid at the end. defaults,user,exec,suid

Anders

On Monday 06 August 2001 01:34, John Scott wrote:

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That's exactly what it was. I forgot that mounting "defaults,user,exec" automatically gives you nosuid. I deleted user,exec and now I'm fine. That fixed several problems. Thanks.

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Could it be that you've mounted the file system with option nosuid?!

regards Anders

On Sunday 05 August 2001 22:35, John Scott wrote:

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I have a problem with suid programs.

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John