Well its on an nfs mount, had to export it with setuid option enabled. Jon
-----Original Message----- From: Hugh Brown <hbr...@divms.uiowa.edu> Reply-to: Hugh Brown <hbr...@divms.uiowa.edu> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list <rhelv5-list@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] setuid Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 09:03:56 -0500 On 08/09/2012 08:09 AM, Fraley, Jon wrote: > On Red Hat 5.7 I am trying to set uid for an oracle executable. However > it doesn't seem to be taking. > > > # ll oradism > -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 71758 Sep 17 2011 oradism > # chmod -v 4750 oradism > mode of `oradism' retained as 4750 (rwsr-x---) > # ll oradism > -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 71758 Sep 17 2011 oradism > > Is there a trick to getting this set? > > Thanks -- Jon Is the filesystem mounted nosuid? I'd also check to see if selinux is blocking you. Hugh _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
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