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From: mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: access(2) (was: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C")
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Date: 1 May 88 01:25:35 GMT
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In article <2089@munnari.oz> mwp@munnari.oz (Michael Paddon) writes:
>in article <975@unmvax.unm.edu>, mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell) says:
>> [Here I made a stupid mistake about the behavior of su(1).]

>"Su" on all the BSD and SunOs systems I have come across changes
>both the real and effective uid/gid and the group access list.
>If this were not so, many programs would not run from a "su" shell
>because their authors used "access". :-) Your "su" behaviour is,
>perhaps, System V madness.

I KNOW, now.  I foolishly posted first and checked later.  We run REAL
4.3 BSD...I just goofed.  From the myriad of mail and other related posts,
I gather that the SysV behavior is the same as the BSD.
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