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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:35:11 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, sprice@hiwaay.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: looking for an idea
Message-ID:  <329B547F.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
References:  <199611261724.MAA09233@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>

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Bill Paul wrote:
> 
> 
If YOU ( the server) are root....

make a file owned by them mode 400
require them to open it and send you the file descriptor via AF_UNIX

check it matches..
if it does, then
1/ the are themselves
or
2/ they are root (game over)



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