Re: EUID != root + EGID = root, and CAP_SETGID

[Andreas Schwab]

Ivan Zahariev <famzah@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As a result, such a process cannot change its EGID to an arbitrary one,
> even though the current EGID is the super-user "root" one.

There is no such thing as a "super-user group".  No group has any
special privleges.

Andreas.

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