Re: Problems with scheduler on SCO

[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!

Zmailer needs some serious re-design to eliminate the need for
reversible euid's, which are a big enough security concern all on their
own.

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