-x implementations

Jim Balter jim at segue.segue.com
Sat Feb 2 11:20:11 AEST 1991


In article <19017 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>test(1) is the sick on.  Any version of test(1) which relies on
>access(2) is broken.

1) The fact that access does not provide an option to test the effective uid
   is brain damage.

2) It only matters if the program calling access has S_ISUID or S_ISGID set.
   Why would test be installed with set-uid privileges?



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