Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: System V.2.2 setuid() broken Message-ID: <4062@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 16 Jul 88 17:49:10 GMT References: <8043@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 14 In article <8043@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes: >Please learn to parse English. Setuid requires two conditions for >failure: > (1) The real user ID of the calling process is not equal to uid. >*and* (2) The effective user ID is not super-user. yes, my english parser failed. read the other article posted on this topic by myself and perhaps the net may appreciate my confusion ... - john. -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- with my apologizes