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Subject: Re: writing daemons under SunOS 4.0
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Date: 26 Apr 89 00:25:30 GMT
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   Making a program setuid only changes the "effective" uid, leaving the
   "real" uid the same.  This used to be sufficient to prevent kill from
   killing it, but apparently not anymore.  I wonder if that's a bug or more
   SVID compliance? ...  --wnl

It's both:  a major mistake, introduced for the sake of SVID compliance.

	Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
	uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu