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


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