Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:00:50AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Steve> Sure, there may have been a behavior change in libc6.
> I would like to see some sort of evidence that there *has* been a
> behaviour change in libc6, We might all be assuming so, when the
> problem lies elsewhere.
I haven't assumed anything of the sort. I was just allowing that it might
be a possibility (but an irrelevant one).
> e.g. maybe pam_access has changed.
Huh? That would have no bearing whatsoever on the results of uid lookups.
> ....could this problem be nscd related?
That would certainly explain the behavior, yes.
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