Larry Jones writes:
>
> I strongly suggest kicking the IBM machinery so that it eventually gets
> fixed, but in the meantime, you can use the following (unofficial and
> unlikely to be adopted into the main source tree) patch:
Sorry, that escaped prematurely. Here's the patch:
diff -u -r1.227 server.c
--- server.c 2000/05/04 19:21:10 1.227
+++ server.c 2000/05/04 19:22:09
@@ -5114,7 +5114,7 @@
}
#if HAVE_INITGROUPS
- if (initgroups (pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid) < 0
+ if (geteuid() == 0 && initgroups (pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid) < 0
# ifdef EPERM
/* At least on the system I tried, initgroups() only works as root.
But we do still want to report ENOMEM and whatever other
-Larry Jones
Another casualty of applied metaphysics. -- Hobbes
