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From: lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore)
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Usefulness of access(2) - (nf)
Message-ID: <3070@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Sep-83 17:08:06 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 24 17:08:06 1983
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Actually this is a great idea.  I wanted such a function a long-time
ago for an "ftp" server that I wrote.  The server had to run as root
but create files as if it were a specific user.  I believe somebody from
Stanford posted a query to Unix-Wizards about this same subject some time
ago.
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