Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #288479
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 288479

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Evan (ev) wrote :

This was happening because when ubiquity was regaining privileges it would only set the EUID back to 0, rather than both the EUID and EGID. This bug would not present itself in the "Try Ubuntu" option as SUDO_UID and SUDO_GID were not set, so the installer would not drop privileges in the first place in that case.