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Subject: Re:  Usefulness of access(2) - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 22:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 22:08:00 1983
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From:  Shawn F. McKay <SHAWN@mit-ml>


For one thing, if the program is SETUID root, just 'try to access the file'
does not work. (i.e. you will allways win, less the files not there).
Then again, I am not so sure that access would be much more useful if
you were root, but I think its clear how it would be useful to have
some system call that takes uid, and gid as args, when running
from a setuid program.

		Yours In Hacking(c),
		   -Shawn

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