Thanks for your help everyone. This little lesson has solved more than just my smbmount issues I have been having.
On Thursday 03 October 2002 12:51 pm, Gary Thornock asked of the Jedi Counsel: > I hadn't realized that ping ran as root, though I guess it makes > a certain sense. Some systems (Solaris, I don't know what others) > don't give non-root users access to ping or traceroute by default. > > Mount does need root privileges: most of the time, non-root users > aren't allowed to mount or unmount filesystems at all. It's mostly > a security thing. > > mkdir, on the other hand, needs to *not* be setuid root, else > users could make directories anywhere in the filesystem regardless > of their permissions. > > - Gary > > --- Jacob Albretsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I looked closer at other programs in /bin and picked out > > this s thing. Things like ping, su, and mount had it. But other > > things like mkdir and gzip don't. I guess I am not seeing the > > difference in the two permissions. mkdir and gzip are owned by > > root but don't need root privlages. Where as ping and > > mount do. Is this just a security thing or....? > > > > Thanks for you explanations everyone. It's funny how I find > > something basic (yet so confusing) that I have not encountered > > before. -- Jacob Albretsen Brigham Young University Department of Physics and Astronomy (801) 422-9291 || (801) 422-9272 [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://astro2.byu.edu/~jake || http://www.xmission.com/~jakea CAUTION: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the BYU UUG discussion mailing list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "UNSUBSCRIBE" as the message body Visit the BYU UUG website at: http://uug.clubs.byu.edu/
