Larry,
Hi! I changed the source according to your suggestion and the following happened
->
<unixprompt>$cvs status -v readme.txt
setgid failed: Not owner
cvs status: authorization failed: server <servername> rejected access
Please let me know if you need more information about my setup
I think i dont have the latest version of the server.c file (as I had to
manually make the change on line 5084 instead of 5114 in your patch).
How do I know what revision of server.c i am using? How do i get the latest cvs
tarball with any patches? I've got cvs 1.10.8
Thanks heaps,
aditya
P.S. -> Making sure i've got it right...
on AIX, the initgroups(3) system call, prints a message on stderr and return an
error when the underlying call to setgroups fails.
Larry Jones wrote ->
Whoever wrote the initgroups(3) function decided that
it wasn't sufficient to just return an error if the underlying call to
setgroups fails, he or she decided to print a message to stderr as well!
This, of course, is a complete travesty. If you have source code, it's
easily fixed; in either case, you should submit a bug report to whoever
maintains your OS.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/05/2000 06:17:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: Aditya Sanghi/Net@Saville, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pserver problem in moving from 1.10 to 1.10.8
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
