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Re: Ssystem & non root

Katherine L Ellis <kellis@primenet.com> writes:

|> as a simple user, you're right. However when I run the aes from user X
|> which is not root but is in the group wheel, and the prog with suid
|> set on, I would expect to work fine. The user X should have access to
|> that, should it?  Considering it is gid=0 (wheel).

GID=0 implies no special privileges, other than what the file permissions
give you.  Only UID=0 is special.

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