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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/at panic.c privs.h
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:20:35AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
> 
Exactly what was needed in this case -- to set saved IDs to the specified
values.


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