On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:21:36 -0400 Sergey Nikolaev wrote:
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> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Sergey Nikolaev wrote:
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> > > This proves that even though LD_LIBRARY_PATH IS in the environment of
> > > sqwebmail it cann't find gdbm library. Strangely, if I remove the setuid
> > > to root, then it finds the gdbm library fine.
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> > I think I remember someone mentioning that some silly operating systems
> > ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH for setuid executables. That is done, allegedly,
> > for security reasons.
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> In this case it is Solaris 7.
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> Is there a fix for this problem? Do I need to recompile sqwebmail? Which
> flags do I need to change?
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> Sergey
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If you compile with -R /path/to/gdbm/library the linker will stick
/path/to/gdbm/library into the binary and everything should work fine.
chris
