xterm setuid problems.
James Cameron
jc at raven.bu.edu
Tue May 14 16:57:35 AEST 1991
System: SunOS 4.1.1 on SparcStation2 with X11R4
Problem: Error messages generated by xterm and xload on client machine.
We have one SparcStation2 server and a client which NFS's the
the local partition. However, when either xterm or xload is
started on the client, the following messages are generated:
May 14 02:10:45 pitch vmunix: xload, uid 23: setuid execution not allowed
May 14 02:10:46 pitch vmunix: xterm, uid 23: setuid execution not allowed
I did export the partition with the -root parameter as follows:
/usr1 -root=pitch.bu.edu
this did not fix the problem. We are not running NIS so on
both machines there exists /etc/passwd which is a replica
of the other....
Any ideas?
jc
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