From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 15 9:16:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0BB837B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAFHGTR17695; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:16:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA56789; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:16:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011151716.KAA56789@harmony.village.org> To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: changing a running process's credentials Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.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> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:16:29 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message