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
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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.
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