SunOS and shared libraries, security aspects

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <1990Sep4.235353.18586 at athena.mit.edu>, jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) says:
>   They don't have to be setuid to use setuid(3).  They have to run as root.
> 
>   If they are run by inetd, for example, they can be run as root even if they
> are not setuid root, since inetd runs as root.

Thanx.
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