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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: pe.cust.general
Subject: Re: setuids on Edition VII
Message-ID: <574@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 85 13:19:05 GMT
Date-Received: 3 Apr 85 13:19:05 GMT
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Distribution: pe.cust
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: it's a (wrong) v7 design decision

This has been discussed on net.unix-wizards recently. It's a
design decision in v7 that everyone now agrees was wrong.
The kernel checks to see if you're root when running a setUID
program, and ignores the setting if you are. If you have source,
it's trivial to fix (I did so months ago).

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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