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

Patrick Lamaiziere patfbsd at davenulle.org
Wed Jun 22 18:40:14 UTC 2011


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

From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd at davenulle.org>
To: freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: misc/158023: Binaries have no SUID bits in
 FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:39:56 +0200

 Le Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:42:05 +0700 (NOVST),
 Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein at rdtc.ru> a écrit :
 
 Hello,
 
 > >Description:
 > 	I'm trying to use FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
 > 	with additional configs (rc.conf etc.) to boot remote system
 > from. Then I login using ssh and try to 'su' to root but it fails:
 > 	/usr/bin/su in the image has no SUID bit.
 
 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.
 
 Regards.


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