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Bug 29413 - vmware 3.2.1 suid conflicts with LD_PRELOAD and unneeded(?) glibc wrapper?
Summary: vmware 3.2.1 suid conflicts with LD_PRELOAD and unneeded(?) glibc wrapper?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High minor
Assignee: SpanKY
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Reported: 2003-09-23 01:36 UTC by Gregory P. Smith
Modified: 2003-10-09 08:18 UTC (History)
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Description Gregory P. Smith 2003-09-23 01:36:58 UTC 
the vmware 3.2.1.2242 ebuild installs a vmware-glibc-2.3.2-compat.so and wraps
the vmware-ui and vmware-mks binaries in /opt/vmware/lib/bin with a script
setting LD_PRELOAD.

This prevents vmware from running as an end user as the LD_PRELOAD breaks the
suid setting (documented in bug 16444).

Is this wrapper really necessary?  I have a glib 2.3.2, gcc 3.2.3 based system
running kernel gentoo-2.4.20-r6 and removing those wrappers allows vmware to run
 as mere mortal users just fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run vmware as a non-root user.  see it fail.
2. remove the wrappers.  rerun vmware.  see it work.
3.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-09-23 06:37:32 UTC 
vmware failed to work for me with 2.3.2 and the same for other users w/out the wrapper

in theory it is needed for vmware-3.x, you just may not have run any code just yet
that would trigger it ...
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-10-09 08:18:38 UTC 
wont fix ...