[Sunhelp] Killed the server.. nosuid in vfstab?

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:29:19PM -0400, Erik Parker wrote:
> 
> Ok.. My lovely server sitting 1500 miles away.. Was setting some stuff up
> on it.. The partitioning looks like this:
> 
> 
> /
> /var
> /usr
> /usr/local
> /home/
> /home/eparker
> /tmp
> 
> I changed /home, /home/eparker, /var, /tmp/ *and* / to have a nosuid mount
> option in the /etc/vfstab..
> 
> The admins there tell me when it rebooted it complained about not being
> able to mount var.. and wanting an fsck.. waiting for the root pw. However
> it doesn't respond to any typing at that point.
> 
> (this is solaris 8 on x86)
> 
> Now in reading: Allow or disallow setuid/setgid  execution. The  default
> is   suid.  This  option also allows/disallows opening any device-special
> entries that appear within the filesystem. 
> 
> I read that after the fact.. Would that mean it can't use any devices in
> /dev|/devices  ?

Device special files are block or character device files (viz., anything in 
those two directory trees that has a major, minor number where you usually
see the file size in the output of ls -l), so yes. :)

Regards,

Nick Dronen