access(2) (was: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C")

[Jim Shankland]

In article <975 at unmvax.unm.edu> mike at turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>There is another way [a program] can run under suid
>conditions:
>
>% whoami
>foo
>% su
>Password:
># nifty_program
>
>Note that nifty program will now have REAL uid foo and EFFECTIVE uid
>root.

Nope.  This seems to be a common misconception.  su alters your
real uid as well as your effective uid.

Jim Shankland
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