Costin,

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> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Luby wrote:
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> My point was that after you drop the root priviledges, there's no way
> to get them back.
> 
> I just double checked the manual, at least on linux.

Hmmm. I picked this up from the Solaris man pages. It is probably best for me to
focus my efforts on finding a good place in Tomcat 4.x to setuid to a non-root
user like Apache does instead of pursuing this probably platform specific use of 
setuid.

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