su/kdesu not working

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Nov 9 15:35:14 UTC 2009


Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> said:
>> Big hammer:
>>   strace -f su -
> 
> You can't strace a setuid executable.

You are right.
Actually the execution will still happen, but with no root
authority, so it will not be useful for debugging.
Seeing some output incorrectly made me think it was working.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it




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