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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:39:38 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/su su.c
Message-ID:  <20050117203938.GB795@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200501171957.j0HJvxst075036@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200501171957.j0HJvxst075036@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:57:59PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
+> rwatson     2005-01-17 19:57:59 UTC
+>=20
+>   FreeBSD src repository
+>=20
+>   Modified files:
+>     usr.bin/su           su.c=20
+>   Log:
+>   If su(1) is run without an effective uid of 0, generate an error to
+>   the user indicating that su is not running setuid, which may help
+>   suggest to the user that it should be setuid, or should not be
+>   running from a file system mounted nosuid.

Shouldn't this be done for every setuid utility? Why only su(1)?

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