Bug 76876

Summary:	Check for root with [ -w /etc/passwd ] in a startup script for xinetd
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	xinetd	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	jfeeney
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2002-10-28 16:14:37 UTC

Description of Problem:

There are too many situations when such test may give both false positive
and false negative results for this thing to be reliable.  True, an installation
has to be modified for that but this may happen and why create weird surprises?
[ "$(id -u)" = 0 ] || exit 1
should do the job instead.

This bug shows up also, at least, in initscripts-6.67-1 used in RH 7.3 distro.
See also #76612 for a related gotcha.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-10-29 04:00:46 UTC

initscripts are part of the particular package.

Comment 2 Jay Fenlason 2003-08-11 17:57:57 UTC

This was fixed in xinetd-2.3.11-1.8.0