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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: setuid(geteuid()) ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.153652.13502@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 91 15:36:52 GMT
Organization: Dakota State University
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I've modified MINIX to allow one to allow a program to set the user id to
the effective user id.  I've seen some obscure references that say this
might be a security problem.  My question: is there a good reason
to not allow setuid(geteuid())?

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