flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) (04/05/89)
In article <1197@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: >Yes, just keep running as "root", and you won't have to worry about any >of this - if you're "root", you shouldn't have to bother with set-UID >stuff at all, right? :-) There are things normal users can do that root cannot, such as fail to open a file :-) One interesting thing that is harder to do as root is to kill all of a user's processes: setuid(uid); kill(-1, sig); which is useful in privileged-kill programs. How about a definition of root by what root can't do? -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee