On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:28:52PM +0100, Tourneur Henry-Nicolas wrote: > I'v corrected the stop_server function and re-uploaded a new revision of this > package to mentors.d.n. > I'm CCing Craig Small since he's my mentor for this package. I've just uploaded subversion -10 of the package to the ftp master. Apologies for the delay!
> Unfortunately, the Tacacs+ daemon has hardcoded setuid commands to some value > defined at compilation time. That's pretty evil, you could get a fixed UID if you want but they're usually frowned against. > This is why this daemon software runs as root (I tried to make some patch at > the begining of the packaging but without success). > If someone have an idea, please tell me so and we will be able to improve > this situation :) I'll have a look at it sometime. It's just a matter of reading the uname->uid mapping at the start and using that elsewhere. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
