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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:16:29 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: changing a running process's credentials 
Message-ID:  <200011151716.KAA56789@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:09:34 PST." <20001115090934.A830@fw.wintelcom.net> 
References:  <20001115090934.A830@fw.wintelcom.net>  <20001115161316.C309@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001115084722.I29448@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001115190135.E309@ringworld.oblivion.bg> 

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In message <20001115090934.A830@fw.wintelcom.net> Alfred Perlstein writes:
: Unless this syscall was restricted to root, or a small subset of
: uid's it would cause some severe security issues from my point
: of view.

Even the small subset of uids would be highly suspect.

Warner


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