OpenSSH-3.9p1 permanently_set_uid behavior on Linux

[Darren Tucker]

William R. Knox wrote:
> I have noticed this behavior under Solaris 8 as well. There doesn't appear
> to be a Bugzilla entry for it, and I see that it is not in the latest SNAP
> available. Has this patch to ssh.c been helpful to anyone? It seems to fix
> it under Solaris, for what that's worth. Is it likely to be included in
> the future? Should I open up the bug?

You can if you want, but dealing with this is on my to-do list.  I'm not 
sure if that patch is the best way to deal with it, or if 
permanently_set_uid() should skip the restore test if pw_uid == 0.

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