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From: Christopher A Kent <cak@PURDUE.ARPA>
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: whoami useless in setuid programs
Message-ID: <5962@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 15:42:17 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5962
Posted: Tue Nov 20 15:42:17 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 06:30:55 EST
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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Description:
	whoami returns the real user id, not the effective user id.
Repeat-By:
	create a setuid shell script and run whoami inside it.
Fix:
	Simple -- change the getuid() call in whoami.c to geteuid().
	Must have been overlooked in the 4.2 conversion.