From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!stuart Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: SETUID and linking looters Article-I.D.: genradbo.1413 Posted: Thu Feb 17 08:49:48 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 20:23:20 1983 The user can't kill the background process if he's not the same uid or process group. Fork the process while still in setuid privilege. Then revert back to regular user id and start up whatever. -- Stuart Hollander (ucbvax!decvax!genradbolton!stuart)