Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:42:49 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: gpalmer@freefall.freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/sperl Makefile ports/lang/perl5/patches patch-ab patch-aa src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl config.h p Message-ID: <199606050842.MAA00970@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199606021959.MAA06610@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Gary Palmer" at "Jun 2, 96 12:59:29 pm"
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> gpalmer 96/06/02 12:59:28 > > Modified: gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl config.h perl.c > gnu/usr.bin/perl/sperl Makefile > lang/perl5/patches patch-aa > Added: lang/perl5/patches patch-ab > Log: > Use setreuid instead of seteuid for permissions management What is reason of this change? Setreuid have some limitations in comparation with original old BSD implemetation for security reasons. Seteuid is much clear in this sense. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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