From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!5941ux!machaids!hocda!spanky!ka Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: More on SUID and exec Article-I.D.: spanky.201 Posted: Fri Feb 11 14:52:25 1983 Received: Sat Feb 12 06:32:06 1983 References: mitccc.296 Create an executable-by-everybody directory under "testdir" called "subdir", make "subdir" executable by anybody, and perform the exec with the current directory set to subdir. The exec fails in the example given because the process doesn't have execute permission on the current directory. Kenneth Almquist