hey roman,
yes i did. if i change the uid of the user nobody to "-3" (e.g.) in my /etc/passwd, syslog changes to: "... unable to set uid to -3, current uid: 65534"
any help for you? greets,
daniel
Yes, thank you! I've been vading through the proftpd code lately because of performance problems on a big site, and I've fixed several problems that I don't know how they could come to these ideas. It seems there are more of these... 65534 is supposed to be uid nobody, "-2" should not be used since you never know how large your uids really are (16 or 32 bit). Once the ftp server has done setuid(-2) as root, it will be impossible to get back the privileges. Our package maintainer will deal with it - if anyone can, then it's him. Thanks, Roman. -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht@suse.de> "Caution: Cape does not | SuSE GmbH - Security enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany (Batman Costume warning label) | - -