Re: [patch] getlogin

[Neal H Walfield]

You should not bother applying this patch.  Rather, you should just
elide the call to initgroups completely; it does nothing: initgroups can
_only_ be called by a privileged process (i.e. root).  So, what is
initgroups good for?  Primarily a program like login.  Here is another
patch:

2001-08-16  Neal H Walfield

        * libparted/libparted (ped_init): Do call initgroups.


--- libparted.c.orig    Thu Aug 16 15:00:19 2001
+++ libparted.c Thu Aug 16 19:21:05 2001
@@ -122,9 +122,6 @@ done_disk_types ()
 int
 ped_init ()
 {
-       if (getlogin())
-               initgroups (getlogin(), 0);
-
 #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
        bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 #endif

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