-x implementations
Sean Eric Fagan
sef at kithrup.COM
Thu Mar 7 19:11:23 AEST 1991
In article <668288533.3106 at mindcraft.com> karish at mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>It would be helpful if there were a second interface that could be used
>to check file access based on the effective UID. Adding a flag to
>access() at this point would not be an acceptable solution; it would
>break too much existing code.
SCO has an eaccess which does exactly that. I just tried it, and it worked.
(Actually, I had a fun few minutes, because it kept telling me that I had
write permission to /etc/passwd without having to be root [I made my binary
suid root]. If occurred to me, after a while, that the file was group
writable, and, now that multiple groups work, I happen to be in the
"correct" group to write to it. Neat...)
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