[sudo-users] Anyone running sudo on AIX Virtus I/O Server?

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Fri Feb 17 09:58:32 EST 2012


A bug has been reported with sudo on AIX VIOS, see
http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=498, where sudo
appears unable to change its uid or gid, despite being setuid root
(and apparently running with root privileges).

I don't have any experience with AIX VIOS so I'm hoping that someone
else might have an idea as to what the problem is.  From skimming
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/iphb1/iphb1security.htm,
it appears that the security policy on VIOS is different from a
regular AIX server but I haven't been able to determine what the
actual effects are of the different security levels.

Thanks!

 - todd



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