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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: (getuid() && geteuid()) Date: 19 Feb 1996 23:36:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4gb1h2$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ffe84$ed1@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE (Roland Jesse) writes: > How may I handle the bug in getuid() and geteuid() that both are always > successful ? Huh? Why do you consider it a bug? Any process does have a real and an effective UID, hence both functions must always be successful! > I want to install a little programm to get root-permissions for executing > one command. To check the startup permissions there is a line like: > > if (geteuid() && getuid()) (void) exit(1); > > This works for SunOS 4.1.3 but doesn't for FreeBSD 2.1. > Are there _any_ other ways to go around ? What is it supposed to do? What doesn't work? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)