Hi all, We have an application program that we could run on a RedHat 6.2, but we are seeing different behavior on RedHat 7.3.
Here is the situation: This application uses Posix Preemptive Threads, and Raw Sockets, so it must run as root. We have a testing convention where we set the suid bit of the executable, so it runs as root. the user running the test sets an environment variable called $LOCAL. this points to a custom configuration file for the test. in RH6.2 the user could set the value of LOCAL in his .bash_profile, and the application was able to pick up the value of LOCAL from a call to getenv(). even though we are running suid root. in RH7.3, we can't see the value that was set for LOCAL, once the suid bit is set. (I also tried using sudo, but got the same results) Does any one know what has caused this change, and can I re-create the 6.2 behavior by changing some config options on 7.3? Things I suspect: changes in PAM changes in exexve (lib) changes in kernel syscalls Ideas & suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
