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Date:      Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:20:35 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/at panic.c privs.h 
Message-ID:  <200109041620.f84GKZh35512@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:15:51 PDT." <200109041615.f84GFpx76144@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <200109041615.f84GFpx76144@freefall.freebsd.org>  

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In message <200109041615.f84GFpx76144@freefall.freebsd.org> Ruslan Ermilov writes:
:   The setre[ug]id() calls are still used in the REDUCE_PERM macro (with
:   the r[ug]id arguments of -1) so that the call changes the saved user
:   and group IDs of the process to that specified.

Just a side note: We should not use setre* calls in the base sources.
They present problems for dropping privs since they obliterate the
saved uid.

Warner



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