Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.

[Joe Malicki]

----- "Joe Malicki" <jmalicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting
> the euid of its owner.
> 
> Thus far, we have only seen failures for the program being setuid
> root, being run by a non-root user, on a multi-core machine.  Trying
> to
> setuid to a user from root, *or* booting with maxcpus=1 and trying to
> setuid from a non-root user to root, both fail.

Sorry, misstated that.

setuid from nonroot->root, or with maxcpus=1, always seems to work.

Only multiple cores with setuid to root has failed for us.

-Joe Malicki
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