Which commands (in /bin & /usr/bin) must have set user ID (for root)

[Jack Jansen]

Probably a *lot* of commands in /bin or /usr/bin don't need set-uid.
If you adopt a well-chosen group scheme, set-gid to a certain group
can be enough.

This is what is more-or-less done in BSD unix. For instance,
/dev/kmem is owned by the group 'kmem', and '/bin/ps' is setgid kmem.

This can easily be extended to programs like 'at', 'df', 'expreserve',
etc. The nice thing is that this is even possible if you don't
have a source license.......
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