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

[Claude Beazley <cbeazley hgmp mrc ac uk>]

Here are the traces:-

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Running the server as a normal user was successful and gives the trace:-
p18972 : ([0x80500b8])->testoctetsequenceupload (seq[6665311]={ 0x2d,... 
...,0x2d }, ) 

** (process:18972): WARNING **: CORBA_ORB_destroy: ORB still has 2 refs.

** (process:18972): WARNING **: ORB: a total of 7 refs to 4 ORB objects were 
leaked
g_thread supported!
Written the file embcas.ior with the IOR of this server.
 Now waiting for requests...
Entering impl_test_testoctetsequenceupload

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running server as root fails and gives:-

** (process:18921): CRITICAL **: file linc-protocols.c: line 1050 
(linc_protocol_destroy_cnx): assertion `proto != NULL' failed

** (process:18921): WARNING **: CORBA_ORB_destroy: ORB still has 2 refs.

** (process:18921): WARNING **: ORB: a total of 7 refs to 4 ORB objects were 
leaked
g_thread supported!
Written the file test.ior with the IOR of this server.
 Now waiting for requests...

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>On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 9:29 am, Claude Beazley wrote:
> >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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