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Aucbvax.2857 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Aug 29 07:09:17 1981 setuid not working if user is root >From JNC@MIT-XX Sat Aug 29 07:05:09 1981 We went over this a while back, but I don't think we ever got any replies. In UNIX, the SETUID bit is ignored if the RUID is root. This can lead to lossages with Daemons being started with the wrong uid, and being inaccessible to signals, creating files that later daemons can't access, etc. Has anybody taken this out and seen if gross lossage resulted, or what the effects are in general? Ken must have put that code in there for some reason, it's not just a side affect ot anything.

Noel -------

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