Re: BEWARE! Linux seteuid is broken!
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:04:06 +0100 (BST)
> I already did it by replacing pretty useless setfs.ids with correct sete.id.
> setfs.id were bad idea (the greatest fault is that fs.id is write only and
> it is impossible to save/restore it) and my nfsd does not use setfs.id
> in any case.
setfsuid() is used very effectively by the user mode nfsd and by troll tech
ftpd.
> works at any unix flavor that I have around except for Linux. It's funny,
> is not it?
No.. It suggests we need to do a little work 8)