On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:03:50 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Re: LPRng: lprng on AIX > > > > are you sure ? > the manpages doesnt mention a problem > "part of BOS 4" >
The man page says that setruid() on aix always returns EPERM; the real user id cannot be modified unless you also give up completely superuser status -- as the login program does. And then you use setuid() for that purpose. Villy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
