problems with PAG and ARLA

assar@stacken.kth.se assar at stacken.kth.se
Wed May 26 09:05:53 CEST 1999


Holger Trapp <Holger.Trapp at Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE> writes:
> In the Secure Shell daemon the PAG is set correctly by k_setpag() but
> afterwards destroyed by initgroups().

Yes, that's a problem.  I think that the correct way of doing things
is to first call initgroups() and then call setpag() but apparently
some code out there depends on initgroups() preserving the PAG.  We
will be adding a work-around for this in Arla.

/assar





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