Re: BEWARE! Linux seteuid is broken!

really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
16 Jun 1996 22:54:31 +0400


Stephen R. van den Berg (srb@cuci.NL) wrote:

: If, however, one were to change the source below to simply avoid the
: null-operation setreuids() (by simply changing the libc implementation
: to check if it *is* a null operation before actually calling the
: kernel function)...

Thanks. I've made it half of year ago 8)8)8), when fighting with
secure RPC.
But it would be more clever to fix Linux behaviour and return RPC library
into SUN native state.

Alexey Kuznetsov.