topic Re: seteuid :operations not permitted in Operating System - Linux

seteuid :operations not permitted

george_114 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:56:29 GMT

When I run crontab command, it return message error "seteuid : operation not permitted".Why does this happen??

Re: seteuid :operations not permitted

Mark Grant — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 04:01:03 GMT

Normally this will be because you are running a setuid application on a file system that doesn't allow it or from trying to run a setuid script.

Re: seteuid :operations not permitted

Elmar P. Kolkman — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:00:48 GMT

Or the command is located on a filesystem that is mounted with the nosuid option.

Can you run it, with the suid, from the command line as the specific user ?

Also, is the command you try to run suid, or is it a part of the command. In the first case, try to run it from cron as the requested user directly instead of using the suid bit. In the latter case, try running the script as root and use 'su - -c ""'.

Re: seteuid :operations not permitted

george_114 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:51:56 GMT

If i run crontab using root, it return no error, but if i run using ordinary user i return error.

Re: seteuid :operations not permitted

Mark Grant — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:20:46 GMT

George,

presumably if you run it as root, it doesn't actually need to be setuid so that's probably why that works.

Could you respond to Elmar's questions above, they might be usefull

btw, Congrats on the new hat Elmar :)

Re: seteuid :operations not permitted

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:47:22 GMT

Hi,

Add that username to /etc/cron.allow.

regards,

U.SivaKumar.