Re: The SUID bit (was Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff)

Doug McNaught (doug@wireboard.com)
06 Jul 2001 11:17:28 -0400


Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com> writes:

> Do you have a code example of how a program with euid root can change its
> actual uid (which several programs check when they should be checking euid,
> versions of dhcpcd before I complained about it case in point)?

Ummm... setuid(2)?

Works for me...

-Doug

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