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From: boyd@basser.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V.2.2 setuid() broken
Message-ID: <1320@basser.oz>
Date: 18 Jul 88 02:03:14 GMT
References: <5968@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <2820@ttidca.TTI.COM> <58603@sun.uucp> <3475@sequent.UUCP> <59537@sun.uucp> <1305@basser.oz> <3942@rpp <4061@rpp386.UUCP>
Reply-To: boyd@basser.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <4061@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>yes, i RTFM'd and posted stupidity.  however, to make matters
>worse, my supposedly SVID compliant Xenix kernel works as you
>desire and allows one to slip in the piece of code i mentioned
>with the expected consequences as i mentioned.
>
> ...


Ho hum.  Bugger RTFM.  Either you should test it or RTFC[ode].

I've RTFM'd & RTFC'd.  Did anyone else?


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