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

[Jon Zeeff]

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.

That's not what I see on a Sys V.3 system.

$who am i
zeeff      cons3        Apr 22 18:58
$su
#id
uid=0(root) gid=3(sys)

Note that id claims my uid and euid are the same.



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