3.4 SetUID issues (correction)

Manolis Kiagias sonic2000gr at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 07:37:48 UTC 2011


On 4/12/2011 12:47 πμ, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Steve Craver<scraver at gsd-usa.com>  wrote:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/secure-setuid.html
>>
>> There is an instance of *setuid* that is spelled *seteuid*.
>      Agreed. Just to make things clear:
>
> s/In particular, all seteuid application/In particular, all setuid application/
>
> Thanks!
> -Garrett

Seteuid also appears on the <indexterm> of the section so it is probably 
not a coincidence. Seteuid is a valid term (set effective user id) and 
it might be what the original author actually meant, but I'm not sure.



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