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Date:      Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:12:21 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hackers-digest V3 #242
Message-ID:  <199706181712.KAA20993@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199706180623.QAA03038@polya.blah.org> from "Ada T Lim" at Jun 18, 97 04:23:10 pm

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> Anyhow, what would be a good way to implement 'setuid libraries'?  (The idea
> being that all function calls to this library have an implicit setuid(0) first
> and a setuid() back afterwards.

You mean "installed images".

Generally a "system" priviledge level jammed in between "user" and
"kernel".  On an Intel, this probably means "ring 1" (kernel is
"ring 0" and user is "ring 3").


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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