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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.coherent:3748 alt.religion.kibology:3512
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!bu.edu!dartvax!coos.dartmouth.edu!csquared
  3. From: csquared@coos.dartmouth.edu (C Squared)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,alt.religion.kibology
  5. Subject: Re: setuid() problem
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug17.031542.10029@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  7. Date: 17 Aug 92 03:15:42 GMT
  8. References: <1992Aug10.074540.3348@acme.gen.nz> <1992Aug11.002719.21317@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com> <Bt3wDy.2Ct@world.std.com>
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  10. Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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  12. Originator: csquared@coos.dartmouth.edu
  13.  
  14. In article <Bt3wDy.2Ct@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
  15. >[comp.os.coherent]
  16. >In article <1992Aug11.002719.21317@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com> chris@engineer.mrg.uswest.com (Chris Fedde) writes:
  17. >>In article <1992Aug10.074540.3348@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
  18. >>>Thanks for that, it confirmed what I thought was the case. Unfortunately,
  19. >>>the program in question is interactive, so putting fork()s in would be quite
  20. >>>tricky and require still more rewriting. Oh joy. I think I'll try having the
  21. >>>executable setuid root instead.
  22. >>> 
  23. >>>Craig Harding          kilroy@acme.gen.nz           ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
  24. >>>"Jub'f Xvob?"
  25. >>
  26. >>BTW. Who is Kibo?
  27. >
  28. >If someone finds out, will they let me know?  I hear he's on the net
  29. >somewhere.  I think he wrote the 'kibosh' shell for Coherent.
  30. >
  31. >                                -- K.
  32. >
  33.  
  34. Well he doesn't really exist, but if he did he would have told me I was
  35. ALLOWED to use his name in a story I'm writing so when it's done I'll post
  36. it and then he'll exist.
  37.  
  38. C Squared
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