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