Julian Gilbey (J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk) wrote on 9 January 2001 11:08: >Most weird. I get this behaviour when running through a setuid root >strace, but I don't get the error messages (and hence the content of >/etc/shadow) when I don't use strace. I'm still running potato. You can't strace a suid root binary if you're not root, so this isn't a security problem.