Umm - this implies that you are calling "setuid" with no arguments -
in that case, what are you trying to accomplish? With your modifications
the command will do nothing in this case.
The "60001" value is a solaris-ism - its standard "nobody" account.
>>>Orion said:
> I was trying to use setuid and I kept getting a userid of 60001. Looking
> at the code I found the reason.
>
> uid = 60001;
> if (argc > 1) {
> Tcl_GetInt(interp, argv[1], &uid); /* new user id */
> }
> if (setuid((uid_t)uid) < 0) {
> Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "setuid: ", Tcl_PosixError(interp),
> NULL);
> return TCL_ERROR;
> }
> return TCL_OK;
>
> this works a lot better as
>
> uid = 60001;
> if (argc > 1) {
> Tcl_GetInt(interp, argv[1], &uid); /* new user id */
> if (setuid((uid_t)uid) < 0) {
> Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "setuid: ", Tcl_PosixError(interp),
> NULL);
> return TCL_ERROR;
> }
> }
> return TCL_OK;
>
> --
> Orion Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Smith & Wesson: The original point-and-click interface.
>
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