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

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Thu Sep 30 15:28:02 UTC 2010


On 30/09/10 15:46, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> 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.

Probably cleaner than the patch I'm working on, though.

Matt
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