The problem appears to have been nosuid set on the file location. Copying the file to /usr/bin at first appeared to fail to solve the problem, but once I re-set the SUID bit on the newly copied file the expected behaviour appeared.
Thanks! //Mark On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Philip Guenther <guent...@sendmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Mark Dittmer wrote: > > I know that OpenBSD has striven to limit the number of setuid binaries > > in its suite of software for security reasons. However, I am not under > > the impression that the SUID Bit no longer affects the effective user-id > > when the binary is run -- this would mean that the bit does nothing, and > > even the few setuid programs left in OpenBSD would not work correctly. > > Is the binary located on a filesystem mounted with the "nosuid" flag? > > > Philip Guenther