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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI master.passwd problem Date: 1 Oct 1996 14:40:38 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <52rah6$5tg@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <52komo$1li@comet3.magicnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E steven@magicnet.net (Steven Bradley) wrote: > If the SUID perl script were to run as root when it ran chpass and > chpass worked as it was supposed to (complains about euid and uid > can not be swapped), this would have worked perfectly. Your suidperl is broken. FreeBSD's perl works fine with _not_ using the Posix saved ID definitions. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j