OpenSSH-3.9p1 permanently_set_uid behavior on Linux

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Oct 19 09:50:22 EST 2004


Darren Tucker wrote:

> 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.

I think it should just skip the test when root pw->pw_uid== 0.

-d




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