Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 23:40:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A little strangness with 2.0.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950902233257.589A-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <199509022213.PAA02051@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sat, 2 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > My problem is "solved" at the moment, but something is not "cricket"
> > and may bite someone else. Why should the group ID have any effect
> > on kill permissions?
>
> A kill signal can be delivered to a process owned by your UID or a
> process owned by your GID. You seem to not be a memebr of the group
> you SGID'ed to, so exclusion groups apply.
>
>
Terry,
I should perhaps have phrased it better. I should have said..."seeing as
both the parent and child were SUID 'net' , why would changing the
GID matter?
I have to admit I don't know about exclusion groups. I'll have to do a little
reading on that.
Thanks,
-Jim Durham
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