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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS need setUID root?  Informix?
Keywords: Unix, Security
Message-ID: <1989Nov26.143314.20363@virtech.uucp>
Date: 26 Nov 89 14:33:14 GMT
References: <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <1989Nov24.092221.15741@agsm.ucla.edu> <1023@maxim.erbe.se>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <1023@maxim.erbe.se>, prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
> As far as I know, Informix needs to be SUID root so it can bump the ulimit
> out of sight. After having done that, it reverts to non-SUID. I believe you
> cannot remove the SUID from informix, since it checks for error returns and
> aborts if the ulimit couldn't be changed.

Unless, of course, the ulimit is already at least that high.  A normal user
can successfully call ulimit as long as the new limit is <= the old limit.


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