Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:06:21 -0500 (EST) | | From | Joe Malicki <> | | Subject | Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't. |
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----- "Joe Malicki" <jmalicki@metacarta.com> wrote:
> Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting > the euid of its owner. > > Thus far, we have only seen failures for the program being setuid > root, being run by a non-root user, on a multi-core machine. Trying > to > setuid to a user from root, *or* booting with maxcpus=1 and trying to > setuid from a non-root user to root, both fail.
Sorry, misstated that.
setuid from nonroot->root, or with maxcpus=1, always seems to work.
Only multiple cores with setuid to root has failed for us.
-Joe Malicki
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