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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: setuid?
Message-ID: <3320@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 May 90 17:48:44 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>This didn't answer Mr. Rae's question nor was it in the least
>constructive since on System V [*1] a shell script can not be setuid;

Eh?  When last I saw S5R4 it *did* support set-uid shell scripts, and
used the "/dev/fd/N" hack to get around at least one of the known
security holes.