Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News and setuid(geteuid)
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.234043.10700@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <NEULYNNE.91Feb1154357@uts.uni-c.dk>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 23:40:43 GMT

In article <NEULYNNE.91Feb1154357@uts.uni-c.dk> neulynne@uts.uni-c.dk (Mogens Lynnerup) writes:
>In relay/relaynews.c C News wants to do a setuid(geteuid). Could someone
>please tell me reason for this. Why does one want to set the real uid to the
>effective?

Because on some old systems, there is no other way that relaynews, running
setuid, can create directories that belong to "news".

Revised approaches to this are being studied.
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