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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
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Subject: setruid?
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  What does setruid() supposed to do?  I've been trying to get sudo to 
run on a 1.1.5.1 system which reports:

sudo.bin: warning: this program uses setruid, which doesn't do anything
(but used to)
setruid(uid): Operation not permitted


Tom