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| author | Volker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org> | 2003-09-23 14:49:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Volker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org> | 2003-09-23 14:49:17 +0000 |
| commit | ee868462a0fadcb7a0b18568069dd9190e246d9a (patch) | |
| tree | b4d8a896f296c42d8ab49daee761be5b765c208a /source3/lib | |
| parent | f167cf594d41ce1133ecbd1d12f9d75d340f288b (diff) | |
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Add a descriptive comment to our usage of setresuid. lib/afs.c needs
to be changed if we decide to set our real uid. Jeremy?
Volker
(This used to be commit 1fed55aa781bcf9efdd42f361c972b69152137a4)
Diffstat (limited to 'source3/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | source3/lib/util_sec.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source3/lib/util_sec.c b/source3/lib/util_sec.c index 132748ce13..1980b8bfb7 100644 --- a/source3/lib/util_sec.c +++ b/source3/lib/util_sec.c @@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ void gain_root_group_privilege(void) void set_effective_uid(uid_t uid) { #if USE_SETRESUID + /* On Systems which have this function, would it not be more + * appropriate to also set the real uid by doing + * setresuid(uid,uid,-1)? This would make patching AFS + * unnecessary. See comment in lib/afs.c. */ setresuid(-1,uid,-1); #endif |