I think the bigger question here is: Why did this happen in the first place?
Cort,
Is there anyone at FSM Labs know why this occurred?
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> From: Ludwig > Öfele[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:15 AM
> To: Frederic Cazenave
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [rtl] root id
>
> Hello Frederic!
>
> That's clear. I think, root always has id 0. You have to search for the
> "-1" and patch it (replace it) with the "4294967295". For sure I will
> give no garantee, that this will not crash your system, but you should
> try it (do not log out, you might not be able to login as root again).
>
> regards
> Ludwig Öfele, Humantec
>
> Frederic Cazenave wrote:
> >
> > 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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