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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: bug in mintlib44's access() function
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 20:20:40 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <199406201437.QAA06787@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL>; from "Bart Schuller" at Jun 20, 94 04:37:01 pm
-
- N'abend...
-
- > > So where's the point of this function?
- >
- > The point of access() is precisely for set-[ug]id programs: normally
- > when you want to know if something is allowed, you just try it. But with
- > a set-uid root program, everything will succeed. So in that case you can
- > use access() to check if the real user should be allowed to do things.
-
- So it isn't good for what I wanted it to be good for. Well, I don't mind,
- I won't use it, then. Didn't I say somewhere on this list some days ago that
- sometimes I just take things as *I* want them to be, due to my limited
- knowledge about other systems? Looks like history has got me again... ;-)
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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