Re: o Re: sequence of octets bug in Orbit when running server as root?t

[Claude Beazley <cbeazley hgmp mrc ac uk>]

>On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 5:48 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Claude,
>
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:50, Claude Beazley wrote:
> > I'm trying to run a local corba server as root.
>
> 	That's intrinsically quite a risky thing to do you know ? :-)
> especially so in older ORB versions than ~2.4.2

Yeah, I do, but I need root for certain tasks, so I automatically drop down
seteuid to a user for everything else and when root is required I can
temporarily  seteuid back up again. I have just updated to the latest version
I can find. "Hyper unusual..." no longer occurs but client still fails as
before. I will generate the debug output sometime tomorrow.
thanx

claude

> > The server works fine in  accepting ints, strings,sequences of strings
> > and other variables  from the client, however it falls apart when
> > trying to accept a sequence of octets:-
>
> 	Most odd;
>
> > The server never enters testoctetsequenceupload but
> > prints out the glib warning:-
> > ** (process:28210): WARNING **: Hyper unusual code path of little testing
>
> 	Ok - so that code isn't there anymore; upgrade the ORB and see what
> happens. Also configure it with --enable-debug, then export
> ORBIT2_DEBUG=traces, and post what you see printed out here.
>
> > ORBit2-2.4.0.0.200206240452-0.snap.ximian.1
> > ORBit2-devel-2.4.0.0.200206240452-0.snap.ximian.1
>
> 	Grab a new snapshot, that's 3 months old :-)
>
> 	HTH,
>
> 		Michael.

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