System command on FreeBSD...

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>[...]
>> FilePro may be running external commands as the filepro user or as the
>> original user depending on how they handle the internal fork, exec logic.
>[...]
>
>Normally, filePro runs any system commands as uid=$ORIGINAL_UID and
>euid=filepro.  If PFSYSEUID=OFF, then filePro will give up its euid
>for the duration of the system command.

Good info Ken!

A couple of questions though:

  1.  If you set PFSYSEUID=OFF, does it affect pipes to the lp command?

  2.  Does this work on SCO OpenServer?  I thought their commends to change
      the effective uid were a one-way trapdoor.

Bill
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