System V.2.2 setuid() broken

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.UUCP
Sun Jul 17 03:49:10 AEST 1988


In article <8043 at alice.UUCP> wilber at alice.UUCP writes:
>Please learn to parse English.  Setuid requires two conditions for
>failure:
>      (1) The real user ID of the calling process is not equal to uid.
>*and* (2) The effective user ID is not super-user.

yes, my english parser failed.  read the other article posted on this
topic by myself and perhaps the net may appreciate my confusion ...

- john.
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