SCO UNIX and setuid(2)

[Lyle Seaman]

ingea at IFI.UIO.NO (Inge Arnesen) writes:

>SCO UNIX SysV/386 3.2 has introduced login UID (LUID) as account
>identification. Once set, it cannot be changed (with setuid(2)). Is it
>possible to have  a daemon running as root with the LUID not set and to set
>the LUID from a forked child ?

Yup.  This is the crux of the reason that certain TCP/IP daemons don't
work correctly when you run "/etc/tcp start" manually, and why certain
other daemons don't work correctly UNLESS you run "/etc/tcp start" manually.

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