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Removing setuid

Posted Nov 23, 2010 19:09 UTC (Tue) by Yorick (subscriber, #19241)
In reply to: Removing setuid by talex
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

The most important user of setuid that I can think of is Nethack. It would have to run as a daemon (&).

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Removing setuid

Posted Nov 23, 2010 22:09 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

& itself being one of the sickest in-jokes in nethack (which has almost too many, if that were possible).

Removing setuid

Posted Nov 24, 2010 13:18 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

I...never got that joke until just now.

Removing setuid

Posted Dec 1, 2010 3:30 UTC (Wed) by baldridgeec (guest, #55283) [Link]

Don't feel bad, I didn't either (even though MAIL is defined on my build!)