[6277] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Synctree Errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Thu Jan 23 10:44:50 1997
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 23 Jan 1997 10:44:18 -0500
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:05:25 GMT
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> } Error copying /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/sipb/arch/sgi_52/bin/xmcd: chmod() failed: Permission denied
> } Error copying /afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/sipb/arch/i386_nbsd1/bin/xmcd: copy failed: Permission denied
>
> Could someone please explain why this needs to be setuid under
> operating systems with volume management (i.e. IRIX)?
There are two reasons it typically needs to be setuid:
1) to acquire the device, and
2) to send raw SCSI commands.
A volume management service perhaps solves #1, but it doesn't solve
#2.
