Why no setuid for root in V7 kernel?
Guy Harris
guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Sat Mar 2 08:45:41 AEST 1985
> Thus the question arises... why not do SUIDs for uid==0?
Good question. 4.2BSD and System (III|V) both do. If there's any
problem caused by that, somebody better let us all know real fast.
I suspect it was a philosophical decision - they may not have liked
the idea that running a set-UID program lost root privileges instead of
gaining them.
Guy Harris
{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
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