Bug 9540

Summary:	identd runs as root, not 'nobody'
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	wingc
Component:	netkit-base	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	alan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.engin.umich.edu/caen/systems/Linux/code/patches/pidentd-3.0.10-security.patch
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Description wingc 2000-02-18 01:13:55 UTC

The file /etc/inetd.conf erroneously runs the identd daemon as root. This
is unnecessary and should be changed to 'nobody':

auth	stream	tcp	wait	nobody	/usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -e -o


Thanks,

Chris Wing
wingc.edu

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2000-02-18 11:18:59 UTC

Verified. Identd is now supposed to start off
/etc/rc.d/init.d/identd . This looks like a bug in the code. The
initial thread drops to nobody the others do not.
(Checked by attaching with gdb and doing call geteuid())

Comment 2 wingc 2000-02-18 18:50:59 UTC

Alan,

See bug #9539 for RH 6.2 beta and bug #9206 for RH 6.1.

I've already fixed this:

http://www.engin.umich.edu/caen/systems/Linux/code/patches/pidentd-3.0.10-security.patch


Thanks,

Chris Wing
wingc.edu

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-21 16:02:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9206 ***