On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
>
>
> >Well, the immediate problem is that when su(1) called
> >initgroups(3), which is part of the process of changing
> >your identity, it returned an error of EPERM. Given your
> >previous crisis, I'd suspect you missed changing the
> >ownership on something somewhere, or a file mode got
> >changed as well somewhere.
> >
> >You might try running an strace(1) on /bin/su and looking
> >at the arguments that are getting passed to the low-level
> >system calls. You might find some clues there.
>
>
> i alREaDY SaiD tHat - WHeN HE CHAngED THe owneRShIp
> on /BIn/Su THe seTuid BIt GOT AUtomaTICALLy clEAred;
> WHEN He chaNgEd owNErshIp baCK TO rOOT tHE SetUid bIt
> rEMaiNeD CLeAR. It'S TRIvIAl to DEMoNSTRate; cLEar ThAt
> BiT on yOUR owN /BIN/Su ANd YOu'Ll seE pRECiselY The
> SAME ErRoR meSsaGe He's is seEInG. shEeSh! iT'S aS
> iF yOU gUyS dIdn'T REaD MY MEsSaGe OR SOMETHing...
hee... Long way for a small point. Wonder if anyone besides me
noticed. :)
--
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Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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