[27039] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.34: tcpdump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 22 13:38:14 2007
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:39:03 -0500
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On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Kevin W Chen wrote:
>
> What should have happened:
> tcpdump should have run.
The pcap user on RHEL 4 has a fixed uid of 77, which conflicts with
an Athena user's uid. So we've removed it from the standard Athena
passwd file, which unfortunately breaks tcpdump. I guess removing
the tcpdump package altogether might have made more sense.
We don't currently have a plan for fixing this bug, but I'm open to
suggestions.
