It works everywhere else, but not on AIX

Glenn R. Stone gs26 at prism.gatech.EDU
Thu Apr 18 05:49:57 AEST 1991


In <1991Apr16.183547 at ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> bob at ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Bob Andrews) writes:

>I found that df works just fine...as long as user bin has access to the
>directory you were cd'ed into.  If not, well, df is setuid to bin, and
>it fails.

Ahhh, sooooo.... any idea *why* df would be setuid bin?  
nasssty behaviour, that.  

<doublesigh>

- Glenn R. Stone
glenns at eas.gatech.edu



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