[sudo-workers] sudo: setreuid(ROOT_UID, user_uid): Operation not permitted

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Fri Feb 19 14:58:22 EST 2010


In message <5d95c7ed2649279ddf9d3ddf6d46e23f.squirrel at webmail.ic.unicamp.br>
	so spake "Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho" (miguel):

> This problem is extensively described in this bug reports:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/423252
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545414
> 
> Basically sudo does not work when using nss_ldap. But it works when using
> nscd.

Since su is also having problems I don't think it is a sudo-specific
issue.  I wonder if libnss_ldap is changing the uid or gid and not
restoring it.

 - todd



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