Bug#615153: exec: 58: /usr: Permission denied

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

14.04.2011 11:38, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
>> When you run something under strace, setuid/setgid bits
>> are ignored by the kernel, the processes will run as
>> user who started them.  This is significant difference
>> in environment with and without strace.  JFYI.
> 
> Thanks, I should have remembered (allowing ptrace to control setuid
> programs would be a huge security hole).  Sorry for the thinko.
> 
> invisiblemanguard, could you give an exact set of commands and the
> exact output produced, when

I think it's not necessary.  See #618023:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618023

The issue we see here is due to bug in dash which is now fixed.
This bug, if my theory is correct, should become a duplicate
of #618023.

Thanks.

/mjt