Ayale-com.669
net.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!yale-com!mp
Fri Jan  8 23:00:08 1982
Lauren@UCLA-Security's problem
Here is one suggestion:  Add a system call which allows a process with
effective uid == 0, to change the effective uid of ANOTHER process.  (The
system call will take as one argument, the process id of the process
whose euid is to be changed.)  
Then for the problem, something like this would do:
	pid = fork();
	if ( pid != 0 ) {
		signal( SIGINT, reset_uid );
		for(;;) pause();
		}
	/* child */
	setuid( getuid() );
	/*  ... do whatever needs to be done ...  */
	killpg( 0, SIGINT );
	/*  ...  Now you are back to euid == 0.   */
	/*  ...                                   */

reset_uid() {
	newsetuid( pid, 0 );
	exit( 0 );
	}

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