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)