Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihnet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihnet!tjr From: tjr@ihnet.UUCP (Tom Roberts) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: setuid help Message-ID: <321@ihnet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 09:49:08 EST Article-I.D.: ihnet.321 Posted: Mon Nov 11 09:49:08 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:28:29 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 9 About setuid in UNIX Sys V: any process that execs a setuid program file can switch at will between the processes' real uid and the setuid of the file. Thus, it can bounce between these two uid's as often as necessary. This is an essentially undocumented feature os UNIX Sys V (and derivatives, I hope). Tom Roberts AT&T Bell Laboratories ihnp4!ihnet!tjr