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...mail. buglord:~# id uid=0(root) gid=0 The following is recorded in the syslog: Jul 10 22:28:42 buglord login[25795]: initgroups failed for user `meek`: No such file or directory Analysis by Richard Thomas: An examination of shadow-971001 shows the following in libmisc/setugid.c: /* * setup_uid_gid() performs the following steps - * * set the supplementary group IDs * optionally call specified function which may add more groups * set the group ID to the value from the password file entry * set the user ID to the value from the password file entry * * Returns 0...

>>>>> <seifried@seifried.org> writes: > I was looking around for a book specifically on Linux security a week or > two ago, and couldn''t find any. I wanted something Linux specific as > opposed to say O''Reilly''s yellow safe book. There are actually Linux-specific details in Practical; I put some of them there. They are not, however,