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Re: Problems with scheduler on SCO
|From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
|[ On Mon, February 27, 1995 at 11:07:48 (+0200), Matti Aarnio wrote: ]
|> Subject: Re: Problems with scheduler on SCO
|>
|> The system does require reversible euid setting, without it,
|> there are Serious Kludges available in form they were made
|> for some XENIX, but opening kmem and poking process uarea
|> is not (IMO) very nice thing to do..
|
|Not only is it not very nice, it's a security hole wide enough to fly a
|fleet of 767 wide-bodies through!
I've been running Zmailer 2.x on SCO for some time now, by forking a new
process every time a setuid is needed. Not very cool ;-) but not very
expensive if the system does a copy on write for the (child) process memory.
It works. As far as I know, it's secure.
Comments ?
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