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Re: exec after seteuid
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:51:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Oh boy :-( So I have to upload another version of login which drops the
> > call to setegid() entirely. Switching back to uid 18 the just reverts
> > to self and the last call to setgid/setuid uses the logon token.
>
> Or better, call setegid() twice.
Make that "three times", or 2 x setegid() + 1 x setgid()
That looks more Unix-like, but as you said it's mostly fake.
That's what the login.c I sent yesterday was doing, btw.
Pierre