access(2) (was: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C")

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <11144 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>(Of course, each set-ID program can always do
>	setgid(getegid()); setuid(geteuid());
>before attempting to run other programs, but few do.  Then again,
>there are few set-ID programs that run other programs....)

Uuxqt is perhaps a notable execption?  Switching to the real uid
(which is likely to be some random person that sent mail recently)
would probably not be a good idea...


  Les Mikesell