Hi.

[Sorry for starting a new thread (I deleted the wrong copy of the mail).]

>
> It would be interesting to see an strace of, e.g., ls trying to run
> as a broken user. You might have to get a statically linked strace
> to do this, though :-(.
>
> One thing you could try would be something like this as root:
>
> strace -o /tmp/ls.strace -f su - "Broken" -c ls
>
> and then send ls.strace here.
>

# strace -o ls.strace -f su - eran -c ls
umovestr: Input/output error
PostBox bookmarks dl lestat-home mail mozilla.ps perso system tmp video
bin devel doc lib man music public_html templates tricks web


Oh, there is an "Input/output error" there...

Anyway here attached is the the strace output.

Thanks,
Gilles