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Re: NFS server (final?)
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:25:02PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > > > Unable to seteuid(0): Invalid argument
>
> Grrr... I've been completely unable to reproduce this
> problem. The only difference seems to be that I am
> logged in to my W2K machine as a domain user, while
> it looks like you're logged in locally.
>
> Perhaps one of the gurus has an idea as to why seteuid(0)
> would fail? It should switch over the security token
> to that of the Administrator account, yes?
Only if you changed the uid of the Administrator account to 0 by hand.
If you actually switch the user context, the application must not rely
on having uid 0 == root or having uid 0 at all.
Corinna
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