Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!bria!mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: setuid problem
Message-ID: <394@bria>
Date: 26 Jan 91 03:42:48 GMT
References: <25700@adm.brl.mil>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike (Michael Stefanik)
Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, Christophe Wolfhugel writes:
:I have an application that must run as a setuid(0) one and I'd like that the
:application's accouting informations are not charged to root, but to the
:user who called this app.

If you're talking accton(1) accounting, SUID programs are still attributed
to the real UID of the user who executed the command, not to the effective
UID.
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