Linux-Setup Digest #144, Volume #21               Tue, 1 May 01 18:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question. (Dave Brown)
  Re: Redhat 7.1 & Java (Kwan Lowe)
  Re: ln swapper task - not syncing (">>bLaCk_eAgLe)
  Re: Newbie Video Help (Chiefy)
  Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question. (Yidao Cai)
  Migrating to a new hard drive (Mike Martin)
  Re: autoloading modules on boot-up (Craig Kelley)
  Re: ppp problems ("Darren")
  do I need portmap ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: Migrating to a new hard drive ("Henrik Farre")
  lucent modem ("Declan McMullen")
  Re: do I need portmap ? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
  Re: do I need portmap ? ("Ian Jones")
  Re: do I need portmap ? (Andrei Ivanov)
  Re: do I need portmap ? ("C. Newport")
  Re: do I need portmap ? (Tim Haynes)
  Modules and 2Gb of RAM (Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto)
  Mandrake installation problem ("routerl")
  Re: running as someone else. ("Darren")
  Re: ppp problems ("Darren")
  Re: running as someone else. ("Darren")

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 May 2001 13:39:04 -0500

In article <dxKndd8YehcW-pn2-ITul9Bdktd5d@localhost>, Mark Healey wrote:
>I'm trying to configure my apache server on Redhat 6.2 with apache
>1.3.14 to access users "public_html" directories.
>
>In one user directory I created the directory with an "index.html"
>file I set the permissions to all read for the "public_html" directory
>and "index.html".
>
>In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I have
>
>UserDir public_html
>
>and I uncommented the lines:
>
><Directory /home/*/public_html>
>        AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
>        Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExed
>        <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
>                Order allow, deny
>                Allow from all
>        </Limit PUT DELETE PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>
>                Order deny, allow
>                Deny from all
>        <Limit>
></Directory>
>
>Whenever I try to access the user page I get a forbidden error.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Mark Healey
>marknews(the 'at' thing)healeyonline.com

Check the permissions on user home directories.  I think Red Hat ships 
with no access to "others".

-- 
Dave Brown  Austin, TX

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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 & Java
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:30:39 GMT

Try adding the following to your bashrc files:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5



rich plishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> just installed redhat 7.1 on a machine (i386).. everything went fine..
> works ok.. until i installed java (jdk1.3.0_02).. the install went
> without a hitch - followed the sun instructions including adding the
> path.. ran the test and i get:

> $ java -version
> /usr/java/jdk1.3.0_02/bin/java: /usr/bin/cut: No such file or directory
> /usr/java/jdk1.3.0_02/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading
> shared libraries: libjvm.so: cannot load shared object filey


> i thought i'd try the exact same install procedure with the same file on
> a 7.0 machine... it works fine there..

> what did they break in 7.1?? any workarounds known to fix the problem?



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From: ">>bLaCk_eAgLe<<" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: ln swapper task - not syncing
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 17:34:06 -0000

yes, I have the same problem with Mandrake 7.2 (AMD Atlhon 1GB)!

I don't think this is because of the hardware because I installed it
successfuly before
formating and repartitioning the whole system!

there are a few lines before... i get this (after codes and stack pages):

    Aiee, Killing interrupt handler
    Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
    In swapper task - not syncing

This is after the second stage install (second ramdisk load) and after
loading the cdrom device!
I think the problem is when kernel attempts to kill the task. I don't know
what this task does but
 it must have something to do with swap memory.

Many people solve this problem by making putting this command before
installing, at the prompt:
    linux mem=65M
this is because of the bios and ur ram memory...

i also repartitioned the disk in a way that the boot partion would be within
the first 1024 sectors
but nothing!

Still trying to solve the problem... if someone knows the answer.....

>>bLaCk_eAgLe<<

still trying to solve the problem

"scotth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu na mensagem
news:9c0io9$9d0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all.
> I installed Redhat Linux on my AMD Duron 700 with 128mb of PC133 memory.
> After the installation was completed successfully, and the system
rebooted,
> I got a kernel panic and the following error message
> "ln swapper task - not syncing "
> I have a swap partition of 128mb.
> Can anyone please help me?
> Thanks
> Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: Newbie Video Help
Date: 1 May 2001 19:02:16 GMT

01 May 2001 13:14 UTC, JLucien typed:
> I'm a Linux newbie and installed Mandrake 7.0 ok.  Only problem is the
> video card is setup incorrectly.  The display is very hard to read.  I
> can open a console window and run Xconfigurator but I can't see the
> options being displayed to me.
> Is there any way I can bypass the desktop and get directly into the
> command line?

This applies to RedHat so may not be of use but...

The initial runlevel may be set by editing file /etc/inittab.
Runlevel 3 should take you directly to console. 'startx' will fire up
the GUI.

Look for 'id:5:initdefault:'  Change it to 'id:3:initdefault:' 
Without the quotes.

-- 
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question.
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 14:12:15 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This is a known problem with RH private group. You 
either give up privacy by letting others to read your 
home directory (chmod o+r /home/*) or put user html 
in /home/httpd/user and specify it in apache 
configuration file.

cai

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From: Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Migrating to a new hard drive
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:50:03 GMT

I am running a RedHat 6.1 installation on a 540 Meg drive. Thanks to
some generosity I now have an empty 2.1 Gig drive. I would like to move
the entire system onto the 2.1 and use the 540 in another machine. I
don't particularly want to reinstall everything ... I've added a lot of
software and written a lot of scripts. I think it would be a huge pain
in the butt. Besides it just seems so anti-Linux to start from scratch.

I will be partitioning the new drive differently from the old one. The
old drive was basically 3 partitions; one boot, one swap and one for
everything else. So it will not be a one-to-one mapping of old partition
to new partition. I have yet to finish reading up on recommended
partitioning schemes but I am sure one big partition is not the way to
go.

So how do I go about moving everything over? This is what I'm thinking:
1. Shutdown the machine (it's been sooo long ...)
2. Install the 2.1 as a slave.
3. Boot from a floppy
3. Use fdisk to partition the new drive
4. use some magic to move everything from the old drive to the new one.
     - getting the correct parts onto the correct partitions.
5. change the /etc/fstab on the 2.1 to reflect the new partitions
6. shutdown
7. remove the 540, switch the 2.1 to the master
8. reboot and pray.

Will this work? Is there a better way? Can any one help define what
commands would make up the "magic" part? How do I determine what should
be in the fstab?

Thanks for your help. Looking forward to being less claustrophobic!

Mike

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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: autoloading modules on boot-up
Date: 01 May 2001 14:23:21 -0600

"J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all.
> 
> I recenty have installed Mandrake 8.0, and I must say I am quite happy
> with it. There is however a small problem with my modules and X. I am
> using an matrox g400 video card, and am running xfree86 in DRI mode.
> However, the required modules agpgart and mga are not loaded
> automatically. If I do 'insmod agpgart;insmod mga' prior to starting X,
> everything works fine, so the only problem is that these modules are not
> loaded automagically. I was wondering if it is possible to force the
> loading of these modules on bootup of my system or on startup of X by
> tweaking some module configuration file or X configuration file? As a
> temporarily workaround I have added 'insmod agpgart;insmod mga' at the end
> of my rc.sysinit, but surely there has got to be a more elegant way of
> dealing with this issue?

Yes and no.  Some (like myself) would argue that your solution is the
most elegant because it gives you control.  You can also compile in
module auto-loading support for your kernel and it will (should)
auto-load the modules for you.  Also,  you should be able to get by
with: 

  depmod mga

and the kernel should be able to find agpgart all by it's lonesome.

-- 
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley  -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block

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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 
alt.linux,alt.linux.general,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config
Subject: Re: ppp problems
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:31:06 +0100


Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7r9H6.6777$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all. I am having trouble getting my ppp device to connect to the
> internet.
>
> It recognizes my modem, dials in but it stops there. I can not nee what
> handshaking it is doing. can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
Thanks all

Darren



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: do I need portmap ?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:48:01 GMT

Following up on recent abuse of my RH7.0 server, I am taking a closer
look at the running processes in this server.  Do I need portmap or
rpc.statd ?  Brief note: this server has to NICs installed.  One outside
a firewall, the other inside.

The server is running the basics:

  named
  httpd
  wu-ftp (xinetd)
  finger (xinetd)
  telnet (xinetd)
  ssh
  qmail (tcpserver)
  cucipop
  mysql (localhost only, no TCP/IP)
  samba (local NIC only; inside firewall)
  identd

When I kill rpc.statd, everything seems to run okay.  However, following
the occasional reboots, I catch this running again.  I want to make sure
I do not need either of these before really putting them to bed.

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From: "Henrik Farre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Migrating to a new hard drive
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 23:09:19 -0400

I artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, skrev "Mike
Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


> Will this work? Is there a better way? Can any one help define what
> commands would make up the "magic" part? How do I determine what should
> be in the fstab?

I have just "upgraded" to reiserfs, on my main harddrive, so it's allmost
the same. 

1. Install the new hd. 
2. Use fdisk to partition it
3. do mke2fs on it and mkswap
4. mount the partitions as for example /usr_new
5. The magic part: use tar (with the --preserve switch, see man tar) or cp
(-pR, see man cp) to the new harddrive; remember to only copy the
contents of for example /usr to /usr_new (There might be better ways!)
6. Change fstab
7. Change lilo.conf to write to the new harddrive (/dev/hdb or what ever
it is in your system)
8. Run /sbin/lilo -v
9. Shutdown and try to boot on your new harddrive

God luck! U might want to look at reiserfs also ; ) 

-- 
Mvh. / Kind regards 
Henrik Farre ([EMAIL PROTECTED])              

Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
-If I where God, I would recompile the penguin with --enable-flying.

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From: "Declan McMullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lucent modem
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:21:12 +0100

Hello,
  I have an ibm thinkpad i1200 and unfortunately the modem that came with it
is a windmodem
  I have mandrake 7.1 installed and hate having to boot into windows to go
online.
  I've searched the web and saw some patches for other lucent modems for
linux
 however i read that the driver i had found did not support the modem in my
thinkpad.
 It's a long shot but has anyone gotten the modem in the thinkpad to work
under mandrake??
 Regards
   Declan


--
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: do I need portmap ?
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 21:27:20 +0200

On Tue, 1 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Following up on recent abuse of my RH7.0 server, I am taking a closer
> look at the running processes in this server.  Do I need portmap or
> rpc.statd ?  Brief note: this server has to NICs installed.  One outside
> a firewall, the other inside.

You do not need portmap with the services below (assuming cucipop is a
non-portmap POP server).

>   named
>   httpd
>   wu-ftp (xinetd)
>   finger (xinetd)
>   telnet (xinetd)
>   ssh
>   qmail (tcpserver)
>   cucipop
>   mysql (localhost only, no TCP/IP)
>   samba (local NIC only; inside firewall)

>   identd

But - do you really want / need identd?

> When I kill rpc.statd, everything seems to run okay.  However, following
> the occasional reboots, I catch this running again.  I want to make sure
> I do not need either of these before really putting them to bed.

chkconfig --del nfslock
chkconfig --del nfs
chkconfig --del portmap

should stop them running.

Rasmus

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From: "Ian Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: do I need portmap ?
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 14:19:52 -0700

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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Do I need portmap or
> rpc.statd ?

No. Not at all. If you needed them you would know it. You can turn
them off or uninstall them.

> The server is running the basics:
>   named
>   httpd
>   wu-ftp (xinetd)
>   finger (xinetd)
>   telnet (xinetd)
>   ssh
>   qmail (tcpserver)
>   cucipop
>   mysql (localhost only, no TCP/IP)
>   samba (local NIC only; inside firewall)
>   identd

Unless you are offering domain name resolution to the world, turn off
named. Your clients can use your ISP's DNS.

wu-ftp: stands for "wildly unsafe" FTP, reconsider this
finger: why? Nobody uses it except information hunters
telnet: CLEAR TEXT PASSWORDS!!!
and the list goes on...

You probably can do without almost all of the above if you really
think about it. Have you implemented a packet filter?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Ivanov)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: do I need portmap ?
Date: 1 May 2001 21:31:21 GMT

In comp.os.linux.networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Following up on recent abuse of my RH7.0 server, I am taking a closer
> look at the running processes in this server.  Do I need portmap or
> rpc.statd ?  Brief note: this server has to NICs installed.  One outside
> a firewall, the other inside.
> 
> The server is running the basics:
> 
>   named
>   httpd
>   wu-ftp (xinetd)
>   finger (xinetd)
>   telnet (xinetd)
>   ssh
>   qmail (tcpserver)
>   cucipop
>   mysql (localhost only, no TCP/IP)
>   samba (local NIC only; inside firewall)
>   identd
> 
> When I kill rpc.statd, everything seems to run okay.  However, following
> the occasional reboots, I catch this running again.  I want to make sure
> I do not need either of these before really putting them to bed.

As you aren't providing NFS services, you might switch off portmapper and
statd/lockd (you are not mounting NFS-based file systems, aren't you?).
To do so issue the following commands as root:

  # sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock stop
  # sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap stop
  # /sbin/chkconfig nfslock off
  # /sbin/chkconfig portmap off

The latter two commands will remove unnecessary symlinks from /etc/rc.d/rc[345].d
directories, and services would not be started after reboot.

-- 
andrei

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From: "C. Newport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: do I need portmap ?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 22:34:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Following up on recent abuse of my RH7.0 server, I am taking a closer
> look at the running processes in this server.  Do I need portmap or
> rpc.statd ?  Brief note: this server has to NICs installed.  One outside
> a firewall, the other inside.
> 
> The server is running the basics:
> 
>   named
>   httpd
>   wu-ftp (xinetd)
>   finger (xinetd)
>   telnet (xinetd)
>   ssh
>   qmail (tcpserver)
>   cucipop
>   mysql (localhost only, no TCP/IP)
>   samba (local NIC only; inside firewall)
>   identd
> 
> When I kill rpc.statd, everything seems to run okay.  However, following
> the occasional reboots, I catch this running again.  I want to make sure
> I do not need either of these before really putting them to bed.

the portmapper is used for nfs and remote backups etc.
likewise anything starting with rpc (remote procedure call)
You should definitely be blocking this on your firewall, and you
should not be running it on any internet-visible system.

NFS == No File Security

-- 
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the universe.  [Albert Einstein].

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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: do I need portmap ?
Date: 01 May 2001 22:28:18 +0100
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Following up on recent abuse of my RH7.0 server, 

Remind me. I trust you've reinstalled cleanly since, if said `abuse' was
successfully penetrative?

> The server is running the basics:
> 
>   named

*Very* dangerous. Chrooted and as a `named' or similar specific user?
Latest version? Patched?

>   httpd

Do you need to? I presume you've tightened it down as much as possible?

>   wu-ftp (xinetd)

A perennial favourite for crackers; it comes and goes along with bind &
rpc.statd and lpd amongst the most frequently exploited packages, IME.

>   finger (xinetd)

`Hey everybody, want to know a valid username for my box?'

>   telnet (xinetd)

WTH? Why? I hope nobody's ever used it.

>   ssh
>   qmail (tcpserver)

Those are looking better, although I hope that's openssh-2.5.2Psomething
(latest & greatest).

>   cucipop

Hmmmm. Does it do secure stuff, either SSL-wrapping or APOP?

>   mysql (localhost only, no TCP/IP)

Good.

>   samba (local NIC only; inside firewall)

If you must, you must, I guess.

>   identd

`Hey folks, have another username for my box'. Bad.

> When I kill rpc.statd, everything seems to run okay. However, following
> the occasional reboots, I catch this running again. I want to make sure I
> do not need either of these before really putting them to bed.

You should be able to chkconfig them off and preferably remove the packages
providing them. Neither rpc.statd nor portmapper provides anything of use
apart from a back door; only if you know *why* that clause is BS should you
consider running them at all.

~Tim
-- 
    22:23:27 up 1 day, 10:32, 14 users,  load average: 1.81, 0.98, 0.67
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http://piglet.is.dreaming.org      |And you watch the ripples flow

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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:32:22 -0300
From: Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modules and 2Gb of RAM

Hi,

  I need to install linux(SuSE 7.0) on a box with 2Gb, SMP and DPT I2O
(3200S). I've downloaded the
precompiled modules from suse and followed the instructions. Every thing
went fine, until I compiled
my kernel with support for 2Gb. My modules don't work anymore and my
initrd stoped working too.

Question(1) : do I need to issue make modules when I compile my kernel
for 2Gb (like I need to do when
I compile it for SMP).
Question(2) : if yes, how could solve the problem of dpt_i2o.o modules ?

Question(3) : What could be happening to my initrd

Thanks in advance.

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From: "routerl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake installation problem
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 17:45:22 -0500

I downloaded the mandrake 8.0 ISO and it is missing the boot directory. Is
there any way I can still install it?
I tried making a boot disk and it still won't install.



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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.general,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: running as someone else.
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:39:15 +0100


Julian T. J. Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:LfyH6.11584$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <dOxH6.11736$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all. I have a binary executable that performs a volume mount. sadly it
> >needs to be logged in as root  and as I want it accessible by anyone then
> >this single process must run as root only I did see a command for this
once,
> >but I'm buggered if I can find it again.
>
> Have a look at the man page for 'sudo', which can be used by specified
> users to execute certain commands as root.  The configuration file
> /etc/sudoers/ is used to specify which commands each user can run (it
> usually has its own man page).
>
that sounds familiar.

Thanks Julian



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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp problems
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:44:30 +0100


John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What's the output of an
>
> ifconfig
>
> once you've connected?

only my current network settings. the ppp adapter doesn't get past the
handshaking




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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: running as someone else.
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:43:15 +0100


Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Darren wrote:
> >
> > Hi all. I have a binary executable that performs a volume mount. sadly
it
> > needs to be logged in as root  and as I want it accessible by anyone
then
> > this single process must run as root only I did see a command for this
once,
> > but I'm buggered if I can find it again.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Darren
>
> Hello,
>
> if you really trust the binary, you could set the SUID bit,
> asuming the file is owned by root, "chmod 4755 filename", should work.
Hi mike. No the file should be installed dynamically on the users machine
with the consent of the root user. This program mounts the floppy drive and
only root privileges allow this. I need it to be able to log in as root for
just enough tie to mount then return to the current users profile




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