Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:12:00PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Then again, if the software can run as a non-root user and be suid to
> that user, I can't think of any good reason why it couldn't just be
> sgid to some group without any users in it instead. Maybe I'm not
> thinking hard enough though :)
Because then files created by it would be owned by the user running
the process, which might not be what you want.
Julian
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