Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:48:30 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: ache@nagual.ru, imp@village.org Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libtermcap pathnames.h termcap.c Message-ID: <97Mar24.094840pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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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. Bill
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