From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!stein Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: A grumble about setuid - (nf) Article-I.D.: fortune.903 Posted: Thu Apr 7 20:05:23 1983 Received: Fri Apr 8 05:18:14 1983 #R:root44:-15800:fortune:11600011:000:182 fortune!stein Apr 7 18:31:00 1983 4.1bsd allows setuid(geteuid()) and it doesn't seem to cause any problems. In fact, the notesfile system uses this to create directories owned by the effective user. Mark Stein