misc/158023: Binaries have no SUID bits in FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso

[Eugene Grosbein]

The following reply was made to PR misc/158023; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.pp.ru>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd at davenulle.org>
Subject: Re: misc/158023: Binaries have no SUID bits in FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 05:42:33 +0700

 > This is not a bug (it's a feature!). A cd9660 file system does not know
 > anything about suid/sgid bits (and even group or owner). It is not a
 > "unix like" file system.
 > You can't avoid this behavior.
 
 Incorrect. Indeed, cd9660 does not know about files permissions
 but Rockridge extention to cd9660 does. And our mount_cd9660 uses
 Rockridge by default, so this bug is avoidable by using right permissions
 and Rockridge while generating image (mkisofs -R, not mkisofs -r).
 
 Eugene Grosbein