On 02/01/2013 01:09 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Hmm. Yes the warning is new since we started adding debugs() about > failed system calls to display reviously hidden system errors. > > Looking at all the documentation about setuid() and seteuid() I'm > wondering if this was supposed to be seteuid(0) - to clear any > effective-user restrictions before dropping privileges down to the > low-privileges UID. > > I'm also wondering if setuid(uid) was done earlier and the low-privilege > user is what is being dened the setuid(0) - but I can't see any sign of > the "Dropping privileges" message that should appear first. Can one of > you start your Squid with level-3 debug and see where in this startup > list the dropping message appears? > > There is also http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3751 involved > with this somehow. > > > Amos
Just for the record, I see the same warning under OpenBSD. As far is i read the sources it seems to happen when the helpers are started. I think it's the call of no_suid() in ipcCreate in ipc.cc. -- Matthias
