Anoop Ranganath wrote: > The problem reared it's ugly head when maildrop started mishandling > mesasges. Here is what I've tracked it down to: > > I've used the code at the bottom of this message to isolate this > bug. The summary is that when I compile the code as root, and then > make it setuid (chmod u+s a.out) and then try to run it as a user, the > tmpfile() fails. If I run it as root, it works fine. Conversely, I > can give user ownership of the executable, and then run it as user, and > it works great, but if fails for root. Again this is only with the > setuid bit set.
Probably your real and effective UID's aren't the same. Does your SUID root program set the real UID from the effective UID? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
