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

[Rob McMahon]

In article <975 at unmvax.unm.edu> mike at turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>% whoami
>foo
>% su
>Password:
># nifty_program
>
>Note that nifty program will now have REAL uid foo and EFFECTIVE uid
>root.

Well I can't speak for SYS5, but BSD certainly doesn't work that way,
and I imagine su is one of those programs that has come down unchanged
from the mists of time.  su calls setuid which sets both the real and
effective uid's.

I suppose 1001 other people are going to say this, and I ought to keep
stumm for a while, but I hate to see misinformation going round.

Rob
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