seteuid :operations not permitted

[george_114]

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

[Mark Grant]

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.

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

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 ""'.

[george_114]

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

[Mark Grant]

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 :)

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

Add that username to /etc/cron.allow.

regards,

U.SivaKumar.