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- From: benni@phil15.uni-sb.de (Benjamin Lorenz)
- Subject: Re: bug in mintlib44's access() function
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 17:08:27 +0200 (MET DST)
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- > It's probably not ok that the access function from mintlib PL44 uses the
- > `real' user id's to determine access rights, and not the `effective' ones.
- > If you apply this patch, things look a bit more logical to me... :)
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- Stop! :-)
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- That's ok! Here is the Sun-Manpage:
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- > [...]
- > The real user ID and the supplementary group IDs (including
- > the real group ID) are used in verifying permission, so this
- > call is useful to set-UID programs.
- > [...]
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- Benni
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