Symantec Privileged Access Management

  • 1.  setuid: Resource temporarily unavailable

    Posted Jun 20, 2017 01:31 PM

    When trying to switch to Application account from an user ID in Linux server which is integrated with ControlMinder 12.8 using the command - su appAccount/su - appAccount
    getting the error - 'setuid: Resource temporarily unavailable'.

    Does anyone came across the same error?



  • 2.  Re: setuid: Resource temporarily unavailable
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 26, 2017 05:35 AM

    Hi Sunil

    I've researched a bit this error and I have seen one use case where, when doing su, the ulimit that the user it was switching to was the same as the user who was trying to elevate the privileges, and that was not high enough for the privileged user you were trying to become. If you log in directly as that user and you run ulimit -a, and also as the user who is trying to run the sesu, do you get similar results ? In particular it is interesting to check the nproc limit.

     

    Let me know if this helps



  • 3.  Re: setuid: Resource temporarily unavailable

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 26, 2017 05:48 PM

    This is correct, the issue occurs due to ulimit not being set high enough. Here is the link to a RedHat tech doc for the issue that contains the cause and solution.

     

    "cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable" while trying to login or su as a local user in Red Hat Enterprise…