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From: aeb@turing.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: setreuid
Message-ID: <202@turing.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-May-84 16:31:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 16:31:52 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 07:22:23 EDT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In contradiction to the manual, the system call setreuid(2) can change
the real uid of a non-superuser process - in fact
	setreuid(geteuid(), -1);
works (BSD4.2). Is this desirable?
-- 
      Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb