On 23 April 2018 at 17:19, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I expected that >> >> doas id -ru >> >> would return my uid. >> >> But it returns 0 (ie root) >> >> Can anybody comment on it? > > > Hmm, what led you to expect it to return your UID? > > doas, like su, sets both the effective and real UID to the target user's; > running something with doas is not the same as making it setuid and running > it. Running with effective!=real can trip up programs that didn't expect > it, so it not a safe choice for something like doas.
Aha. Thanks for the explanation! I thought it's more like setuid... Sorry. Ruda
