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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Guide to writing secure setuid programs?
Message-ID: <7477@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 20 Mar 88 01:22:44 GMT
References: <181@wsccs.UUCP> <722@rivm05.UUCP> <1037@woton.UUCP> <239@piring.cwi.nl> <127@heart-of-gold>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <127@heart-of-gold> jc@heart-of-gold (John M Chambers x7780 1E342) writes:
-> And, of course, the general rule is not to write setuid programs
-> in the first place, but that has been handled by other people.
-One question I have:  To my knowledge, there does not actually exist a way
-to "write a setuid program".

That phrase is just shorthand for "write a program that will have
to have the resulting binary made set-UID to do its job properly".