From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 16:17:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA26330 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from picspc01.pics.com (picspc01.pics.com [192.135.189.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26325 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tpr@localhost) by picspc01.pics.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA02243 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:17:50 -0500 From: Terry Rossi Message-Id: <199602280017.TAA02243@picspc01.pics.com> Subject: Q: child processes w/suid To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:17:50 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a suid C wrapper which calls a perl script which calls a sh program which calls an exe then another sh program which calls another C wrapper which calls another sh programs which calls a perl script.... I know this is crazy, but the basic question is will one suid cover all of these? >From an echo `id` in one of the sh programs, the id reports as uid=32767(nobody) euid=0(root) gid=4294967295 and this is messing me up. ------------------------------------------------------------ Terry Rossi PICS 609/767-0354 Voice WWW: http://www.pics.com 609/767-0216 FAX Internet Acces starting tpr@pics.com $9.95/mth!