Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:59:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Panula <greg.panula@lexisnexis.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/65326: jftpgw errors out with "Could not change the EUID to 65534: Operation not permitted" Message-ID: <200404081459.i38Exk8F098859@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200404081500.i38F0Tfx051987@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 65326
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: jftpgw errors out with "Could not change the EUID to 65534: Operation not permitted"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 08 08:00:28 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Greg Panula
>Release: 4.9-RELASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD proxy-01.lng-mpls.com 4.9-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 #1: Wed Apr 7 04:43:38 CDT 2004 pang@proxy-01:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROXY-01 i386
>Description:
jftpgw errors out with "Could not change the EUID to 65534" when making use of the "runasuser" feature.
>How-To-Repeat:
make && make install
/usr/local/sbin/jftpgw -f /usr/local/etc/jftpgw.conf.sample
>Fix:
Patch util.c to use setreuid instead of setuid
-------------->8-----------------
--- util.c.orig Thu Apr 8 09:52:20 2004
+++ util.c Thu Apr 8 09:54:15 2004
@@ -249,21 +249,11 @@
return -1;
}
if (what == EUID) {
-#ifdef HAVE_SETEUID
- i = seteuid(uid);
-#else
- /* HP-UX does not know seteuid() */
i = setreuid(-1, uid);
-#endif
} else if (what == UID) {
i = setuid(uid);
} else if (what == EGID) {
-#ifdef HAVE_SETEGID
- i = setegid(gid);
-#else
- /* HP-UX does not know setegid() */
i = setregid(-1, gid);
-#endif
} else if (what == GID) {
i = setgid(gid);
}
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