openssh unix dev - Oct 2000 - Bug in OpenSSH 2.2.0p1

In line 542 of entropy.c is the owner of the PRNG seedfile checked. Root is
also a valid owner of this file. 
So the line must be: 
	if (((st.st_mode & 0177) != 0) || !( (st.st_uid == original_uid) ||
(st.st_uid == 0) ) )

Regards,

Martin
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Martin Luig
email:   email at Martin-Luig.de

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 Martin.Luig at telekom.de wrote:
> In line 542 of entropy.c is the owner of the PRNG seedfile checked. Root is
> also a valid owner of this file. 
> So the line must be: 
> 	if (((st.st_mode & 0177) != 0) || !( (st.st_uid == original_uid) ||
(st.st_uid == 0) ) )
Under what conditions was the original test failing?

-d

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