The both files /etc/passwd and /etc/group the id of root is 0 !!!
Fred
Ludwig Öfele wrote:
> Hello Frederic!
>
> I think, I had a similar problem after an update of Linux Kernel
> (without RT). Your effective user id is 4294967295 which corresponds to
> -1 if you look at it in 64-Bit-Terms. There seems to be a change of
> semantics (-1 changed to 4294967295) in the system and now the rights of
> user and the rights of files do not match any more. I can't explain it
> any better, but maybe this gives you an advice.
> I think, I fixed it by changing the id -1 in the groups or passwd file
> to something more sensful ( (unsigned int32)(-1) = 65535 ?).
>
> Have luck!
>
> Ludwig Öfele, Humantec Industriesysteme
>
> Frederic Cazenave wrote:
> >
> > Last week I have posted a question concerning the lost of my root
> > privilege
> > after installing rtlinux modules. I can summary all my mail with hofrat
> > ( Der Herr Hofrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ), thanks to him, as following :
> >
> > I have installed this files :
> > 521612 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19090206 Feb 14 20:56
> > linux-2.2.18.tar.gz
> > 521622 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450860 Feb 16 15:10
> > rtlinux-3.0.tar.gz
> >
> > then patch linux with kernel_patch-2.2 and build the new rtlinux image
> >
> > when I reboot my machine and logged as root my id is
> >
> > [root@xport /root]# id
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> > groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel)
> >
> > After installing all the modules of rtlinux my effective id changes :
> >
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) euid=4294967295
> > groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel)
> > (here there is no possibility to bring down the system propely !!)
> >
> > If I remove all the rt modules my id goes back to the original
> >
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> > groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel)
> >
> > Rigth now I didn't find any solution
> >
> > Fred Cazenave
> >
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