From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: root executing setuid programs
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.1273
Posted: Sun Jan  2 00:29:05 1983
Received: Sun Jan  2 05:19:45 1983
References: sdcsvax.32

Having root not honor setuid is a a complete botch; it's left over
from when people thought the only use for setuid was to give more
prviliges, not less or different ones.  Just stick an option "MELB" in
your config file--  it's right there waiting to be defined.
We did that long ago to our benefit in v7, 2.8, and 4.1.
4.1a has fixed this and I presume 4.2 will too.
-Jay