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From: dls@mace.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)
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Subject: Re: getuid, geteuid broke?
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Date: 21 Nov 88 20:43:20 GMT
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Reply-to: dls@mace.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)


	Nope, not an error. The effective uid of the "su" shell differs from
the real id, but forked children are real and effective "root".
	The right way to test it would be to compile your program, change
the owner to "root", change the mode to "4751" (setuid) and then it should
print different real and effective uids.
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