From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 18:26:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lab.cyberlifelabs.com (lab.cyberlifelabs.com [208.201.255.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AAFF37B409 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from milo@cyberlifelabs.com) Received: (qmail 76237 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2001 01:26:28 -0000 Received: from sonique.lab.cyberlifelabs.com (HELO there) (208.201.255.10) by lab.cyberlifelabs.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 2001 01:26:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Milo Hyson To: parv , f-q Subject: Re: looking for _readable_ tfm on real/effective/saved/set u/gid Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:26:28 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20010820203403.A14238@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010820203403.A14238@moo.holy.cow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010821012634.8AAFF37B409@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 20 August 2001 05:34 pm, parv wrote: > can anybody point me to readable manuals/articles/etc on real/effective > uid/gid? Here's a link to a simple little explanation that I wrote: http://www.cyberlifelabs.com/library/unix/real-vs-effective-uid-gid.html I hope it's not too technical. Let me know if you want more information. -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs, LLC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message