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From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: access(2) (was: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C")
Message-ID: <4434@b-tech.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 15:15:17 GMT
References: <9654@jplgodo.UUCP> <14020030@hpisod2.HP.COM> <887@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <975@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <975@unmvax.unm.edu> mike@turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>
>% whoami
>foo
>% su
>Password:
># nifty_program
>
>
>Note that nifty program will now have REAL uid foo and EFFECTIVE uid
>root.

That's not what I see on a Sys V.3 system.

$who am i
zeeff      cons3        Apr 22 18:58
$su
#id
uid=0(root) gid=3(sys)

Note that id claims my uid and euid are the same.



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