Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:46:15 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: su root broken in -CURRENT Message-ID: <65545.996111975@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:15:38 %2B0200." <30911.996110138@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:15:38 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I've completed a pretty clean crossgrade [1] to -CURRENT and find that > su is broken. I thought this had been fixed. > > I have a virgin rev 1.17 /etc/pam.conf, I'm in group wheel, I built > world with no funky options, the su binary (built from su rev 1.39) > really is setuid root and yet I get the amazingly helpful error message: > > su: Sorry Found it. pam_wheel is a whore. It doesn't use getgid() or getegid(), but instead grovels through /etc/group manually. I'm in group wheel by virtue of the fact that my GID specified in the passwd file is 0. I don't have to be in /etc/group. Unless, of course, I want to su. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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