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Document new --disable-setreuid option and change description for
authorTodd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 02:00:56 +0000 (02:00 +0000)
committerTodd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 02:00:56 +0000 (02:00 +0000)
--disable-saved-ids to match new error message.

INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e3929743900bc0c2fc76397329f323115fd2d284..d12807f0e3a292673bba38c6bbfd72743b35ca82 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -213,9 +213,11 @@ Special features/options:
   --disable-saved-ids
        Disable use of POSIX saved IDs.  Normally, sudo will try to
        use POSIX saved IDs if they are supported.  However, some
-       implementations are broken.  If sudo aborts with an error like:
-           "seteuid(0): Operation not permitted"
-       you probably need to disable POSIX saved ID support.
+       implementations are broken.
+
+  --disable-setreuid
+       Disable use of the setreuid() function for operating systems
+       where it is broken.  4.4BSD has setreuid() but it doesn't really work.
 
   --disable-sia
        Disable SIA support.  This is the "Security Integration Architecture"