The following reply was made to PR misc/158023; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Patrick Lamaiziere <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: misc/158023: Binaries have no SUID bits in
 FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:39:56 +0200

 Le Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:42:05 +0700 (NOVST),
 Eugene Grosbein <[email protected]> a écrit :
 
 Hello,
 
 > >Description:
 >      I'm trying to use FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
 >      with additional configs (rc.conf etc.) to boot remote system
 > from. Then I login using ssh and try to 'su' to root but it fails:
 >      /usr/bin/su in the image has no SUID bit.
 
 This is not a bug (it's a feature!). A cd9660 file system does not know
 anything about suid/sgid bits (and even group or owner). It is not a
 "unix like" file system.
 
 You can't avoid this behavior.
 
 Regards.
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