[ On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 01:05:38 (-0500), Niels Provos wrote: ]
> Subject: weird setuid behavior
>
> I am a bit puzzled by recent changes (last year) to how setuid works.
> Traditionally, it has always been possible as root to call
> 
>   seteuid(someid)
>   setuid(someid)
> 
> This now fails.  The call to seteuid() succeeds but the the second call
> fails leaving the uid=0 and the euid=someid

What is your starting condition (euid, ruid, etc.)?  Was the process
started from a set-ID binary file?

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