> From: Martin McCormick <mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> > To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Setuid binaries and File Ownerships in FreeBSD9.0 > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:26:16 -0600 >
[[.. sneck ..]] > When the application first runs, it gets the UID and GID > of the user and uses > > setuid(heruid); and setgid(hergid); to temporarily downgrade and > those files are owned by the right user but setuid(0); doesn't > appear to upgrade back to root. > > Is there any other strategy that gets one back to root > short of using chown and then a system call and never > downgrading privilege? man setEuid _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
