set-user-id anomoly

[Colin Law]

On 7 March 2013 22:21, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/13 16:45, Colin Law wrote:
>> So you are in /home/cts/w/1670 and ls -l shows
>>
>> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root cts 760184 Mar  6 07:40 /home/cts/nodes/tcpdump
>>
>  -rwsr-xr-x 1 root cts 760184 Mar  5 23:55 tcpdump
>
>
> No, I am in /home/cts/w/1670 and this command shows that:
>
> $ ls -l /home/cts/nodes/tcpdump tcpdump
>
> (sorry, I didn't include the whole command in the original email -
>  it's on a different machine and I had to cut and paste it to my
>  email machine).

You are making life very difficult for us by not telling us the whole
story.  Are you saying that the two commands you are running are
running on different machines?

I think it might be a good idea if you were to start again and tell us
exactly what you are doing and what the result is.

Colin

>
> It seems that there is more information stored somewhere than there
> used to be.  That's why I was wondering if it might be the new
> capabilities facility, but that seems not to be installed on my
> machine.
>
>
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