Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: C News and setuid(geteuid) Message-ID: <1991Feb20.234043.10700@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 23:40:43 GMT In article neulynne@uts.uni-c.dk (Mogens Lynnerup) writes: >In relay/relaynews.c C News wants to do a setuid(geteuid). Could someone >please tell me reason for this. Why does one want to set the real uid to the >effective? Because on some old systems, there is no other way that relaynews, running setuid, can create directories that belong to "news". Revised approaches to this are being studied. -- "Read the OSI protocol specifications? | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology I can't even *lift* them!" | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry