rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) (09/25/90)
I booted my Compaq Syspro 386 with an emergency boot floppy and tried to remove a directory both with rm an with rmdir. However, I get the error message: rmdir: setuid(2) failed, Not owner Can anybody tell me what the problem is? -rwx--x--x bin bin rm -rws--x--x root sys rmdir id tells me that I am really and effectively root (0). -- Ronald van der Pol <rvdp@cs.vu.nl>
paul@tetrauk.UUCP (Paul Ashton) (09/26/90)
> I booted my Compaq Syspro 386 with an emergency boot floppy and > tried to remove a directory both with rm an with rmdir. However, > I get the error message: > rmdir: setuid(2) failed, Not owner C2 strikes again! solution is type su then rmdir setuid will fail if the login uid is not set, however su sets it if it is not already set. Obviously the single user login doesn't set your luid. -- Paul