Re: EUID cannot be set

I wasn't aware you could set the uid and gid through those vars... neat.

I've always used POSIX::setuid (and setgid). perlvar states that if $> = $uid or $< = $uid fails that it sets the $! to an appropriate error message. I'd look there.

$< = $> = 1000 or die "hrmph... silly perms or something: $!";

-Paul

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Re^2: EUID cannot be set by 0xbeef (Hermit) on May 09, 2007 at 21:34 UTC
Mmm, I did in fact check that: `linux: demotion to sys(4294967294) failed: Bad file descriptor (euid: +-2) aix: demotion to nobody(4294967294) failed: (euid: -2)` [download] Niel	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: EUID cannot be set by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on May 10, 2007 at 20:19 UTC
Note on AIX's nobody user for Exim Services for Unix blog It seems this is not overflow. It's just a representation in one place using an unsigned value and in another using a signed value. Considering there are 4,294,967,296 values in a 32-bit integer and that the signed number would be in two's complement if negative, -2 is exactly the same as 4294967294. As a matter of fact, I believe your EUID is being set. It's just not being set to the right interpretation of the number. I suggest you ponder this code: `#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; my $nobody = 4294967294; print $nobody . "\n"; $nobody = pack 'I', -2; $nobody = unpack 'I', $nobody; print $nobody . "\n";` [download] Christopher E. Stith	[reply] [d/l]