[4461] in bugtraq
Re: Linux UID/GID 'Feature'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philippe Regnauld)
Tue May 13 11:38:53 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:00:21 +0200
Reply-To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@DEEPO.PROSA.DK>
From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@DEEPO.PROSA.DK>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <01BC5D8D.679DD4A0@frank56.pcisys.net>; from David Phillips on
Sat, May 10, 1997 at 09:56:05PM -0600
David Phillips writes:
> But then we tried to su to that user and were rewarded by being dumped
> to UID 0. It didn't recognize the UID so it defaulted to 0. Cool huh?
Same behavior on FreeBSD (2.2).
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-- Phil
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