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From: ron%brl-vgr@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  Protecting games
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Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 17:12:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 27 17:12:51 1983
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From:      Ron Natalie <ron@brl-vgr>

The problem with doing the setuid back before doing the exec is that
then the program no longer has permission to exec the program so it
will always fail.  What the original submitter wnated was a "check
the permissions to see if it's OK to exec, then setuid back" version
of exec.

-Ron