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Re: Pseteuid/Psetegid errors in 1.11h2



itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE writes:

|>  Ok, I don't use 1.11h2, but I've been reported that it causes problems
|> with ftpd. Reason seems to be that the newer Psetreuid routines just
|> return 0 in case of no error. Ok, how are they supposed to distinguish
|> which id to return, but the 'old' Pseteuid always did this. Since ftpd
|> relies on this, there's a small fix appended, relative to 1.11h2.

This is a bug in ftpd.  sete?[gu]id are defined to return zero if
successfull.

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