Why doesn't uucico use chroot(2)?

Daniel R. Levy levy at ttrdc.UUCP
Thu Dec 4 09:32:30 AEST 1986


In article <1268 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, mangler at cit-vax.UUCP writes:
>Seems like it would be more secure that way...
>Don Speck   speck at vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck

chroot(2) can only be used by the superuser (euid=0).  Sounds dangerous to
have uucico setuid root rather than setuid uucp.
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