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From: ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re:  Third try at setuid help ...
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:10:32 EST
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 In System V R2 they've added:

	  If the effective user	ID of the calling process is not
	  super-user, but the saved set-user (group) ID	from exec(2)
	  is equal to uid (gid), the effective user (group) ID is set
	  to uid (gid).

to setuid.  If you have SVR2 you are in luck.

-Ron