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  • From: "Chris Dombroski" <cdombroski AT gambit.gotdns.org>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [SM-Discuss] Question about passwords in spells
  • Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:21:09 -0600

Apologies to Eric since I just accidentally sent this just to him...

My nonexpert opinion from what I've seen is that the sorcery function to
add users/groups is not being called with root privs if you're not
already root when you run cast.

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> [mailto:sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> Eric Sandall
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Question about passwords in spells
>
>
> Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:29:06PM +0100, Andrew ruskie
> Levstik wrote:
> <snip>
> > > Erm spells do require you to be root so it's su's if
> you're not last time I
> > checked
> > >
> >
> > Actually I think he means that while the spell is casting it prompts
> > for a password, not before it starts. I believe this was
> determined to
> > be a problem with pam and groupadd or something.
> >
> > -Andrew
>
> There is a bug filed for this:
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=> 7602
>
> -sandalle
>
>
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