[2833] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: krb5-libs/505: patch to make krb5 consistently use one set-effective-uid function
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Champion)
Thu Dec 4 18:29:54 1997
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:29:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, gnats-admin@RT-11.MIT.EDU, krb5-prs@RT-11.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199712042117.QAA05407@dcl.MIT.EDU>
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> And you're telling us that BSD/OS has gratuitously broken this? I'd
> submit a bug report to BSDI.....
Most of the 4.4BSDs didn't work with the set* functions, or at least not
in a way that other programs expected them to work. FreeBSD fixed most of
theirs; it seems that BSDI still hasn't fixed setreuid().
Evan
