Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 00:56, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I'm having some issues with enabling programs to be suid root. Stuffs like /bin/mount /usr/bin/mount.cifs is already in mode 47xx and I still get errors that I have no permissions to execute it (to mount) If the mount point

Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts

2006-02-28 Thread Mattias Merilai
Ow Mun Heng wrote: or do I need to chgrp /bin/mount into group-owned by disk/wheel? Yes you do, and for /bin/mount, it already should be 4755 root:root. SUID bit makes the program to be executed in the rights the owner of it, so if you want to have a program run SUID root you will have to

Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts ( cross platform encryption program/container)

2006-02-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 03:20 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 00:56, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I'm having some issues with enabling programs to be suid root. Stuffs like /bin/mount /usr/bin/mount.cifs is already in mode 47xx and I still get errors that I have no