Re: uid change in sock_alloc breaks identd

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:01:46 -0400 (EDT)

On 21 Sep, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
+-----
| Anyway, a Linux-specific fix in rlogin and rsh is possible by doing
|
| setfsuid(getuid());
| .. rcmd() ..
| setfsuid(geteuid());
|
| That will work under all kernels, and will not break stuff
| when the rcmd() function in glibc is fixed (or the kernel.....)
|
| So Herbert, please fix rlogin and rsh :]
+--->8

"All the world's a Linux" --- NOT. I hope that proto-smiley is for
real....

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