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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmalicki@metacarta.com,
	bakerkj@metacarta.com, mitz@metacarta.com
Subject: Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:28:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225162836.63fce3c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9683328.9717571235603514325.JavaMail.root@ouachita>

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:11:54 -0500 (EST)
Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com> wrote:
>

wow, good bug report!

> 
> Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting
> the euid of its owner.

Do you know which euid it _does_ get?  Is it unchanged, or is it random
garbage, or...?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-26  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <10783026.9717361235603356623.JavaMail.root@ouachita>
2009-02-25 23:11 ` BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't Joe Malicki
2009-02-26  0:28   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-26 13:17     ` Joe Malicki
2009-02-26 12:06   ` Joe Malicki
2009-02-26 16:06     ` Hugh Dickins
     [not found] <15171620.10049841236049960269.JavaMail.root@ouachita>
2009-03-03  3:16 ` Joe Malicki
2009-03-03 11:16   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-03-04  1:28     ` Joe Malicki

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