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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:
bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 10, 2011 7:25 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] sendmail using real rather than effective user ID</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Is selinux active? It always keeps the real ID of the user intact even through multiple layers of su.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt">On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Lightner, Jeff <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">On a couple of recently loaded servers including a RHEL6 I found that Sendmail is sending emails generated
by root processes using my real user ID rather than root’s ID.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">These root processes were started from command line after I did “sudo su –“ to become root. The processes
definitely show root as the user running them. The sudo man page says that when one switches to another user both real and effective user ID are set to the new user which seems to be born out by the “id” command. However, if I run “who am i” and “whoami”
I’m seeing my real user id (the one I was before doing the sudo su) and effective ID. However, this is also true on my RHEL5 boxes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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the email goes out just fine as root@ after a sudo su -.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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