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Subject: Re: Setuid binaries and File Ownerships in FreeBSD9.0
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jb writes:
> Get familiar with this document:
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/setuid-usenix02.pdf
> 
> Then verify its validity on your target and current OS.

Thank you. I had read the man page several times and like most
man pages, it is a summary and one can miss some of the finer
points which I seem to be missing right now.