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[Chris Dombroski <cdombroski AT gambit.gotdns.org>]

I guess I'm just confused then, because I would think that if a program was 
run from a
process owned by root that it would also have root priveledges without having 
to be
authenticated again.

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:29:23 -0800
Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com> wrote:

> No, everything is run by root, its a problem with pam. The groupadd
> pam config is non-existent so it defaults to the pam default which is to ask
> for a password. This is further validated by the fact that I dont use
> pam and I cannot reproduce the problem by starting cast as either root
> or my normal user.
> 
> Also, the function to add users and groups is not a
> sorcery function it is a grimoire library function. See
> /var/lib/sorcery/codex/<grimoire>/FUNCTIONS and libaccount for details.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:21:09PM -0600, Chris Dombroski wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> > > [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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