On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Anup Narayanan wrote: |I there any system specific setting in Linux/Unix which prevents switching to |an arbit user (as root ) ?
as long the suid bit is not set.. the program will be run as the user who is running it. |Wouldn't this system specific setting be helpful if a programmer were to |develop a software which contained an application which performed on similar |lines of the passwd program ? so ?? the user writes an app... who's going to run it ? root needs to install the program... so if he's dumb enough install that .... he deserves whatever surprises are in store for him! :) Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
