Re: [LI] RE:What is SUID ?

[Sathya Rangaswamy <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> hi,
> setuid is useful when we want a generalized prog. which should have the
> privileges of the user who is executing it ...
> Correct me if i am wrong 'cause its sometime back that i had read about it.
and for ex apache uses it to change id to the username specified in the 
httpd.conf file. You will see the first httpd process owned by root and the rest
by whoever is specified in the config file
HTH
sathya
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