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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: xterm setuid problems.
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Date: Tue, 14 May 91 19:09:05 GMT

In article <JC.91May14025735@raven.bu.edu> jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:
>May 14 02:10:45 pitch vmunix: xload, uid 23: setuid execution not allowed
>May 14 02:10:46 pitch vmunix: xterm, uid 23: setuid execution not allowed
>	 I did export the partition with the -root parameter as follows:

I suspect you're using the "nosuid" option in the mount on pitch.
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