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Re: suid root files in AFS on debathena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Oct 18 13:02:04 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:01:54 -0400
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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As discussed, suidroot hasn't worked on Debathena since ... ever (2009, as far as we're concerned), and SAS has clearly worked or we would have heard about it. Before we deploy yet another change to cluster, can we test what doesn't work? Or is it that the application truly doesn't launch at all? (If so, I'm curious what happened for the last 2 years).
There are also other possible solutions here that we can discuss at release-team. I'm not opposed to doing this on cluster, and maybe workstation, but we should figure out why it wants this.
-Jon
On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm posting this after brief conversations with geofft and jdreed about
> the subject. I am in process of installing a SAS upgrade. SAS requires 3
> files to be suid root to operate properly, and this has been done for a
> many years by request to ops.
>
> After having this done yesterday, I noticed that I couldn't see the "s"
> bit in running ls -l on these files, and found after the conversations
> above that suid root files in AFS aren't enabled on debathena.
>
> I'd like to request that they be enabled, at least for cluster, in order
> to make SAS work properly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
