Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help on Relaynews
Message-ID: <2072@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 26 May 91 06:26:58 GMT
References: <1991May17.003758.17351@bpdsun1.uucp> <1991May18.212857.21302@zoo.toronto.edu> <8028@auspex.auspex.com>
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In article <8028@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>You said "yes" when build asked whether you could do setuid(geteuid()).
>>Wrong.  (On SunOS, yet... sigh.)

>Really?  I tried running a program that read:

>	[program omitted]

>so it did, indeed, set the real UID to match the effective UID, which is
>exactly what "setuid(geteuid())" is supposed to do.

I installed cnews on a Sun 4/470, and consulted the setuid() manual on this
very question.  There is apparently a configuration parameter that enables/
disables this.  It was called something like _POSIX_SUID.
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