Re: how to identify the superuser in C
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:13:15 -0500,
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:07:11AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> > The problem is that there is fakeroot. getuid() == 0 or
> > geteuid() == 0 is not enough. PAM is an overkill.
> > I think seteuid(0) == 0 is the best approach.
> fakeroot (or any other dynamic linker tricks) will not work on set[ug]id
> programs. libc can be trusted here.
Is this Linux specific? (There can be a Hurd port in the sarge release).
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