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
