Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:22:52 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/at panic.c privs.h Message-ID: <20010904192252.G1669@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200109041620.f84GKZh35512@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:20:35AM -0600 References: <200109041615.f84GFpx76144@freefall.freebsd.org> <200109041620.f84GKZh35512@harmony.village.org>
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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. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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