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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:22:04
Message-Id: 1190124273.21760.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:14 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2 > > Note the "chage: PAM authentication failed" *only* occurs when I run
3 > > under strace and only then when I run as a user.
4 >
5 > This is normal, since the suid is ignored when the program is
6 > straced.
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8 Yes, that makes complete sense now that I think of it :-)
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