Aucbvax.2957
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Sat Sep 5 14:23:59 1981
setuid ignored for root
>From chico!esquire!psl@Berkeley Sat Sep 5 14:13:31 1981
It sounds like we're all agreed that it's an ugly, sometimes dangerous
hack. The reason I brought it up originally was to find out if anyone
knew of a case where its removal would cause trouble. So far no one has
mentioned such but I sense the same lurking fear in many of the responses.
Brian Lucas has finally talked Interactive Systems into making a mod in their
systems (for unrelated reasons) which makes the permissions associated with
a process be the union on the permissions held by the effective and real
uids. This change certainly sounds reasonable and if no one can find a
hidden pitfall would be the perfect companion to the removal of the ignored
setuid for root processes...
Pitfalls?
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