Re: [Bigsister-general] uxmon-asroot wants my root password

[Matt Kettler <suppressed>]

At 05:20 AM 9/15/2004, Nathan Butcher wrote:
> A little bit more tinkering, and it seems that when I start up bs0.99b2 as 
> a non-privileged user, the reason why it hangs at uxmon-asroot is that 
> bb_start is actually waiting for a root password in the background before 
> continuing.
>
> I guess that this is just a stupid bug of some sort, but stupid enough to 
> annoy me.

It's hardly much of a bug in bigisister.. It's seems obvious that anything 
doing "asroot" operations should be started as root...

Perhaps a better behavior would be to bail out and fail to start unless run 
interactively. Or just skip uxmon-asroot with an error message in the logs.

> *sigh* I guess I'll just have to run big sister as root :(

Or if you feel like hacking bigsister a bit you could try to remove the 
"asroot" part in bb_start. Of course, this limits your ability to run 
things as root (ie: icmp pings)...

May I ask you want to start bigsister as nonroot anyway?

By default BS deprivs itself where ever possible to an unprivileged user 
you configured at compile time... Hence the split of 'uxmon-asroot' and the 
normal deprived 'uxmon-net'.

Just because you start it as root doesn't mean it runs as root constantly.

Look at ps aux:

bigsis    4794  0.1  4.0  9796 9724 ?        S    Sep14   1:17 bsmon
bigsis    2882  0.0  2.3  5864 5660 ?        S    Sep14   0:05 bbd
root      3373  0.4  6.4 15100 15424 ?       S    Sep14   4:40 uxmon
bigsis    2881  0.0  2.0  5800 4900 ?        S    Sep14   0:00 uxmon

Note only one uxmon (the one for "asroot") has retained root privs.. 
Everything else has setuid'ed itself to bigsis.



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