On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Pd does a "seteuid(setuid())" to un-get root priveliges if run as
setuid, after its priority gets promoted, so that it runs as the
user who started it.  But there are apparently loopholes, as Mathieu
has found.

what you mean is that your pd does a seteuid(getuid()).

What you need to know is that my pd does a setuid(getuid()) instead.

You can find the relevant information by consulting:

  man setuid

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