From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 04:26:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA13266 for current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA13209 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA03405; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:18:45 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21417; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:59:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA17406; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:20:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612130920.KAA17406@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: setgid() semantics To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:20:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612130307.DAA11679@veda.is> from Adam David at "Dec 13, 96 03:07:21 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Adam David wrote: > It is apparently no longer possible to use setgid() to switch between real > and effective gids. Can someone please confirm this change to be intentional, > or help identify the problem. (found by elm) ...and, you should not run your elm setgid anyway. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)