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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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