Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 17:59:43 MET From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br Subject: Getting non-ingres user to run ingres Message-ID: <9511151659.AA10250@atuhc16.dnisun.aut.alcatel.at>
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Hi,
the recently posted port of University INGRES contains a bug in
creatdb.c which disables anyone but ingres user to create a
database, thus rendering the create access right useless.
The following hack seems to fix it:
/Alby
*** creatdb.c.old Wed Nov 15 00:52:47 1995
--- creatdb.c Wed Nov 15 00:36:38 1995
***************
*** 360,366 ****
exit(-1);
}
/* create it */
! if (setuid(getuid()))
syserr("setuid");
if (setgid(getegid()))
syserr("setgid");
--- 360,366 ----
exit(-1);
}
/* create it */
! if (setuid(geteuid()))
syserr("setuid");
if (setgid(getegid()))
syserr("setgid");
***************
*** 370,376 ****
if (i == 0) {
/* split off directory */
*(p = (char *) rindex(Dbpath, '/')) = '\0';
! chdir(Dbpath);
*p++ = '/';
execlp("mkdir", "mkdir", p, 0);
syserr("exec mkdir");
--- 370,377 ----
if (i == 0) {
/* split off directory */
*(p = (char *) rindex(Dbpath, '/')) = '\0';
! if (chdir(Dbpath) < 0)
! syserr("chdir %s", Dbpath);
*p++ = '/';
execlp("mkdir", "mkdir", p, 0);
syserr("exec mkdir");
***************
*** 388,394 ****
if (i < 0)
syserr("fork 2");
if (i == 0) {
! setuid(getuid());
if (chmod(".", 0777))
syserr("chmod");
exit(0);
--- 389,395 ----
if (i < 0)
syserr("fork 2");
if (i == 0) {
! setuid(geteuid());
if (chmod(".", 0777))
syserr("chmod");
exit(0);
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