[bug #19767] `setauth' doesn't really work

[Thomas Schwinge]

URL:
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                 Summary: `setauth' doesn't really work
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: tschwinge
            Submitted on: Tuesday 05/01/07 at 11:42
                Category: Hurd
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: None
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Details:

The only thing I was able to use it for was to provoke a system crash.

I tried to do a ``setauth -g devel'' after having created a `devel' group. 
`setauth' asked me for a password -- what password does it want me to type
in?

Running a plain ``setauth'' without any command line arguments made it
iterate through all processes (I suppose), displaying either ``setauth:
[pid]: Operation not permitted'' or ``setauth: [pid]: Cannot get auth port:
(ipc/send) invalid destination port''.  The latter ones are the ids of
processes that don't even exist anymore, as a comparison with ``ps -Af''
could tell me.

After that I was left with no ids:

#v+
$ ids
effective uids: 
effective gids: 
available uids: 
available gids: 
#v-

Running ``setauth -g devel'' again made the system crash.  (I can't reproduce
this at the moment, however.)





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