From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: landley@webofficenow.com
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The SUID bit (was Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff)
Date: 06 Jul 2001 11:17:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u20q6q9j.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107060145.f661j5v74941@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <01070606044004.00596@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: Rob Landley's message of "Fri, 6 Jul 2001 06:04:40 -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
--
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time... --Dylan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-06 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-02 12:16 [PATCH] more SAK stuff Andries.Brouwer
2001-07-02 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 19:10 ` Hua Zhong
2001-07-03 22:00 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-06 1:45 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-06 10:04 ` The SUID bit (was Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff) Rob Landley
2001-07-06 15:17 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2001-07-06 15:44 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-02 18:57 ` [PATCH] more SAK stuff Kain
2001-07-06 22:02 ` David Wagner
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