On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, [ISO-8859-2] Paweł Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> Hey.
>
> What do You think about this patch?
> This can help non-root applications like apache etc.
> For example when I got access to many files from many groups when attacker
> will exploit this application he got access to all files, coz there is no
> way to setgroups() if I am non-root and maybe only demon needs access to all
> files - child needs only access to files owned by one group.

This breaks the (rare) case of using group membership for negative
access control.

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