On 01/23/2013 02:26 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The executable in question is a C program whos file
> permissions are 4755 and the file belongs to root so all files
> it opens are also owned by root and that works properly, but
> what I need is for this application to first open a few files
jb writes:
> Get familiar with this document:
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/setuid-usenix02.pdf
>
> Then verify its validity on your target and current OS.
Thank you. I had read the man page several times and like most
man pages, it is a summary and one can miss some of the finer
point
> From: Martin McCormick
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Setuid binaries and File Ownerships in FreeBSD9.0
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:26:16 -0600
>
[[.. sneck ..]]
> When the application first runs, it gets the UID and GID
> of the user and uses
>
>
Martin McCormick dc.cis.okstate.edu> writes:
>
> The executable in question is a C program whos file
> permissions are 4755 and the file belongs to root so all files
> it opens are also owned by root and that works properly, but
> what I need is for this application to first open a few fil
The executable in question is a C program whos file
permissions are 4755 and the file belongs to root so all files
it opens are also owned by root and that works properly, but
what I need is for this application to first open a few files owned by
the caller and then later, upgrade back to r
