Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:31:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hackers-digest V3 #242 Message-ID: <199706180701.QAA20880@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199706180623.QAA03038@polya.blah.org> from Ada T Lim at "Jun 18, 97 04:23:10 pm"
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Ada T Lim stands accused of saying: > > Anyhow, what would be a good way to implement 'setuid libraries'? > (The idea being that all function calls to this library have an > implicit setuid(0) first and a setuid() back afterwards. This discards any state that may be implicit in the user's current priviledge level though, so the library code would have to be paranoid about checking the credentials it was being run with. It's kinda sticky. > Ada -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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