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From: tony@ajfcal.UUCP (Tony Field)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Setuid(geteuid()), help
Keywords: setuid, geteuid
Message-ID: <197@ajfcal.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 03:33:34 GMT
Organization: Co-Design Systems, Calgary, Ab, Can
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Is there any way to do a   setuid(geteuid())   when geteuid() != 0  ???

System: Xenix 2.2.3/386.

I have a shell script that is running an effective uid of "news". The
script calls a process that has a real uid of a "user". The process can
create directories with mkdir that belong to "user", however it cannot
create a file.

If the process is setuid to root, then I can create the directores and
the files, however the owner becomes "root", and I would prefer the
owner be "news".

The shell script could pass it's uid to the process as a parameter, and
the process could do a "chown" however there must be a better way:  I would
prefer not to run setuid root.

thanks a bunch...        tony....
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