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Re: Bug#131592: seteuid(0): Operation not permitted



On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:16:45PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> bortzmeyer@netaktiv.com (Stephane Bortzmeyer) writes:
> 
> > Probably Sparc-specific, I had no such problems on i386. If I have to
> > perform tests, that's fine, the machine is my desktop one.
> 
> I have duplicated this on my Sparc IPX box.  It appears to be sparc-specific,
> and I have no idea what to do about it yet.  I'll CC the debian-sparc list
> on this reply in case anyone knows what's going on.

It may be sparc specific, but I doubt it is a problem in the SPARC
platform. The old sudo works (which I assume also uses seteuid :). So
somewhere there is some bad logic. Hopefully the new sudo didn't allow
some sparc-must-mean-sunos patches to creep into the new version.

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