From: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo <cgoesc2@wgu.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:44:13 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: libuser: fix misleading error message
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bbcb14ffee11bb8b7e6ba0ab9effff79aeb489ce;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

libuser: fix misleading error message

When setting the effective user fails the code prints a
misleading error message stating that 'group' privileges
could not be dropped, but it should state 'user' instead.

Signed-off-by: Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo <cgoesc2@wgu.edu>
---

diff --git a/login-utils/libuser.c b/login-utils/libuser.c
index b11fadc1c..050728303 100644
--- a/login-utils/libuser.c
+++ b/login-utils/libuser.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static int auth_lu(const char *service_name, struct lu_context *ctx, uid_t uid,
 		if (setegid(getgid()) == -1)
 			err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("Couldn't drop group privileges"));
 		if (seteuid(getuid()) == -1)
-			err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("Couldn't drop group privileges"));
+			err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("Couldn't drop user privileges"));
 		return TRUE;
 	}