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Re: exec after seteuid

Pierre A. Humblet wrote: 

Right. It was a side comment motivated by the presence of the initgroups()
in the original BSD login code. I was thinking that one day initgroups on
cygwin could do more stuff, allowing for example
 initgroups("chris", gid)
 setuid("corinna")
which would then have you run with chris' groups. Today the "chris" is
disregarded. If initgroups does that, it has to be placed at the right spot.


Oh, man, I hate it when chris is disregarded, it's disrespectful. ;)

Sorry, I couldn't resist,
Earnie.

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