[Bug 216358] Re: Samba crashes repeatedly to assert_uid

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:01:40AM -0000, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> It look a bit stupid, but maybe it is trying to become a deleted user.

> For ZDS (original poster) it would have means he would have deleted the
> "nobody" user (normally nobody have id 65534 in /etc/passwd, but I
> remember a time where I was deleting it for feeling my system more secure.
> Maybe even the user nogroup in /etc/group.

Sorry, not this either.  The setuid() calls don't require that the uid has a
matching name on the system.

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Samba crashes repeatedly to assert_uid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216358
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