On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Brian Perkins wrote: > I found that the program would not work if I tried to put the root shell in > my home dir, which was mounted via NFS.I tried fo half an hour. > If I tried moving it to /tmp, it worked within a minute, a couple of times. Don't you think it's because your home dir mounted via NFS is mounted with "nosuid" option ? Just an idea, no more.. :) On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Aleph One wrote: > Well while we taling about SysV ps IRIX's its sgid to sys, writes > to /tmp/.ps_data and /tmp/.ps_XXXXXX but /tmp was the sticky bit on. Well, checked IBM AIX, seems to be Ok too.. /tmp has sticky bit on, and /usr/bin/ps is sgid to "system" group only. Hope here we're safe.. Whaddya say?! --alex. -- Alexander Haiut +972-7-461658 Math & CS System group alx@cs.bgu.ac.il Ben-Gurion University, Israel http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~alx/