From fedora-devel-list Wed Jun 27 11:07:00 2007 From: Steve G Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:07:00 +0000 To: fedora-devel-list Subject: Re: utmp and friends Message-Id: <20070627110700.19501.qmail () web51508 ! mail ! re2 ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=118294243101312 >The problem is that setgid binaries have some environment variables >like LD_LIBRARY_PATH and TMPDIR removed. This is correct. Otherwise you could have a security risk. >Unfortunately I can't fix it unless utempter is accessible without setgid. Do >we really need to protect the file from bad applications? Yes we must restrict access of that file. -Steve ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list