[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Fix error launching libguestfs when euid != uid

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 03:36:43PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> It turns out I spoke too soon on this. The wrapping round the call
> to febootstrap-supermin-helper to generate the checksum *is*
> required. Without it, febootstrap-supermin-helper has the wrong
> euid, and therefore generates the wrong checksum. For virt-v2v, this
> means that the following sequence fails:

This is ugly .....

Perhaps we can add a flag to febootstrap-supermin-helper to specify
the calculated euid?  'Course that means upgrading febootstrap.

Rich.

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