Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

> > ....could this problem be nscd related?

> That would certainly explain the behavior, yes.
Just FYI nscd version on that unfortunate box is

nscd:
  Installed: 2.3.6.ds1-8

Also I wasn't able to replicate the problem on up-to-date etch box (without
nscd)... nscd)... nscd)... nscd)... (waw... weird vim behavior)

And you are guys share the prize! the cause is indeed in nscd: problem goes
away if I stop nscd, and comes back when I start it. And it might be that
originally I didn't have nscd running, which is why I didn't observe this
behavior.  nscd --debug didn't show anything interesting besides first hit
against not yet known sashroot and then requests to resolve uid=0.

Since, I assume, behavior of the system should be preserved while running nscd,
this issue is an nscd bug, since nscd changes the way uids get resolved.
Is that correct?

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