[Nix-dev] NixOS 17.03 Beta, 16.09 Security Support Timeline

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Mon Mar 6 14:03:34 CET 2017


Hi,

On 03/05/2017 04:25 PM, Graham Christensen wrote:

> Note: Don't use nixos-rebuild switch. The path to setuid wrappers has
> changed, and using switch will break setuid binaries (like sudo, ping,
> etc.) until you reboot.

Hm, that seems like a pretty critical bug that we should fix before release.

Maybe we should simply revert the path of the setuid wrappers?

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/


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