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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libtermcap pathnames.h termcap.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:48:30 PST."
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:17:22 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <97Mar24.094840pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ
es:
>I think a lot would be solved by having a library function like
>access() that also accepts a UID.  Then the don't-let-people-access-
>files-in-a-setuid-program-that-they-wouldn't-normally-have-access-to
>problem, instead of being solved in N different setuid programs,
>could be solved once.

Well, access_as(2) alone will not do it, you would need a open_as(2),
unlink_as(2), rename_as(2) and so on...

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