On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:57:42PM +0200, Lars Braeuer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I haven't been able to try this out until now.
> 
> Just installed all of Herbert's quota patches and suidperl seems to work 
> with the effective uid now. The actual quota stuff is not completely 
> working for me though (editing a quota with edquota doesn't actually save 
> the quota's for the user).

please elaborate!

> I'm curious, is there a way to make that euid thing it work without having 
> to install the vquota patches? I'm talking about a standalone patch for 
> that issue.
> I tried looking for current->uid and patching it myself, but I didn't find 
> all the places where it has to be changed. Maybe someone can help me?

so it works with my vquota patch, but not with plain ctx-17?
this should be easy to exatract, please confirm!

> Lars
> 
> Paul Sladen wrote:
> >On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Lars Braeuer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>is this just my fault or does "vserver <name> exec" remark that it's 
> >>run by a root suidperl script?
> >
> >
> >I've just been reading Herbert's latest patches and I've just realised that
> >in some places we are testing:

ad Paul: who is we?

> >
> >  current->uid == 0  (User ID)
> >
> >and in others:
> >
> >  current->euid == 0 (Effective User ID)
> >
> >The latter is probably more correct.  Needs looking at.
> >
> >     -Paul

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