I don't have nobody user in my dummy rootfs for virtual machine and trinity stops on getpwnam("nobody"). Let's request uid/gid for nobody only if --dropprivs requested. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- trinity.c | 4 ++-- uid.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/trinity.c b/trinity.c index dd32418411be..4d8d200c7a89 100644 --- a/trinity.c +++ b/trinity.c @@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) initpid = getpid(); - init_uids(); - page_size = getpagesize(); num_online_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); max_children = num_online_cpus; /* possibly overridden in params. */ @@ -80,6 +78,8 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) create_shm_arrays(); + init_uids(); + if (logging == TRUE) open_logfiles(); diff --git a/uid.c b/uid.c index 6a7e65a6a722..fbcf4744cb15 100644 --- a/uid.c +++ b/uid.c @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ void init_uids(void) orig_uid = getuid(); orig_gid = getgid(); + if (dropprivs == FALSE) + return; + passwd = getpwnam("nobody"); if (passwd == NULL) { outputerr("Error getting nobody pwent (%s)\n", strerror(errno)); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe trinity" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html