On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:21:16AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Tuesday, 04 July 2000 at 20:21, Brendan Cully wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I noticed that my up-to-date woody system (plus helixcode) has a man > > which segfaults when run as root, but works perfectly as an ordinary > > user. Anyone else seen this? > > > > man-db 2.3.17-1 > > libc6 2.1.3-10 > > libdb2 2.7.7-2 > > to follow up on my own post - the problem was in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > Apparently passwd and group need to be set to "compat". I had "db > files", presumably hanging about from before I debianised my system. > > anyone know what is going on here, though?
/usr/bin/man is a wrapper that checks if you are root and if so it does a setuid() to user man then executes /usr/lib/man-db/man so something in the process of doing setuid() is broken, i would suspect other things would be broken too. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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