Re: [Siglinux] setuid

2003-02-09 Thread Doc
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Spencer Ogden wrote: > I'm having trouble finding out how setuid works. I was under the impression > that if you set the setuid bit with `chmod +s prog` that when the program > was run it would run with the permissions of its owner, instead of the > user running the program. S

[Siglinux] setuid

2003-02-09 Thread Spencer Ogden
I'm having trouble finding out how setuid works. I was under the impression that if you set the setuid bit with `chmod +s prog` that when the program was run it would run with the permissions of its owner, instead of the user running the program. So the effective UID gets set to the owner of th