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From: robert@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Setuid on expreserve and exrecover
Keywords: setuid, vi, expreserve, exrecover
Message-ID: <794@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 88 02:17:51 GMT
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, San Francisco, Ca.
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Does anyone know the reason for /usr/lib/ex*preserve being
set-user-id bin or root ?

Ex*preserve is the program called by "vi" when a connection is
dropped without having saved the contents of the vi buffer.

Please e-mail me, and I'll summerize to the net if there is interest.

Thanks.