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Re: ERROR: The effective user ID of staprun must be set to the root user.

From: Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:09:41 -0800
Subject: Re: ERROR: The effective user ID of staprun must be set to the root user.
References: <1231455624.5813.2.camel@dyn9047018139.beaverton.ibm.com> <y0meizcte2u.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 15:32 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
...
> > ERROR: The effective user ID of staprun must be set to the root user.
> >   Check permissions on staprun and ensure it is a setuid root program.
> 
> According to the source code, this comes from a specific check
> upon geteuid() != 0.  So the setuid mechanism may be defeated
> somehow - perhaps /usr/local is mounted nosuid?
...
> - FChE

Thanks, but I don't think that that's what's going on.
$ df /usr/local
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             24795964   6914364  16601696  30% /
$ mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
The options field for / in /etc/fstab is "defaults".

Jim

References:
- ERROR: The effective user ID of staprun must be set to the root user.
  - From: Jim Keniston
- Re: ERROR: The effective user ID of staprun must be set to the root user.
  - From: Frank Ch. Eigler

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