Andreas Jaeger writes:

Marcus Meissner writes:

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:56:45AM +0200, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:

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JFYI - this might affect us, too, at least for debugging or testing.

If there was an announcement anywhere else, I missed it. I read this just by accident on [opensuse]:

LD_PRELOAD does not work for setuid applications - and that's the correct behaviour for quite some time...

Exact behaviour: /* The LD_PRELOAD environment variable gives list of libraries separated by white space or colons that are loaded before the executable's dependencies and prepended to the global scope list. If the binary is running setuid all elements containing a '/' are ignored since it is insecure. */ The comment is from Jan 1997 and last changed Feb 1998, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

* Stephan Kulow [06-06-08 06:49]:

Am Freitag 06 Juni 2008 schrieb Stefan Hundhammer:

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JFYI - this might affect us, too, at least for debugging or testing.

If there was an announcement anywhere else, I missed it. I read this just by accident on [opensuse]:

No idea what they're smoking: http://<factory>/suse/i586/checkinstall-1.6.1-72.i586.rpm

Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:55:27 +0200 From: Philipp Thomas To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Compiling the Suse way On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:02:09 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:

This method uses configure > make > checkinstall (instead of make > install).

Checkinstall has been dropped from openSUSE because it doesn't work anymore. Checkinstall's trick is to load a library via LD_PRELOAD that redirects all functions dealing with files. Now for installing a package you need to be root and for programs running with root privileges the dynamic loader ignores LD_PRELOAD as this would otherwise be a huge security problem. So checkinstall has become useless and was therefore dropped. Philipp -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org