[MPlayer-users] still no vidix after setting suid bit

Glyn Kennington glyn.kennington at hertford.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Oct 21 00:04:02 CEST 2002


Dexter Filmore wrote:
> "operation not permitted"
> 
> MPlayer executable has permissions 4755.
> Did I forget something?

Whose id is it being set to?  That is, who owns the file?  The executable
needs to be owned by root for the suid bit to actually give you root
permissions.

Glyn

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