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Andreas Schwab  
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 More options Oct 30 2012, 12:06 pm
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From: Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:06:14 +0100
Local: Tues, Oct 30 2012 12:06 pm
Subject: Re: documentation bug (uid resetting in posix mode)
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Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes:
>>From experimenting, I've found out that bash (4.2.20), when invoked
> as "sh", doesn't reset the effective user id to the real user id,
> even if called *without* the '-p' option.

How did you test that?

# ls -l sh
-rwsr-xr-x 1 nobody root 755512 30. Okt 17:03 sh
# ./sh -c id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
# ./sh -p -c id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) euid=65534(nobody) groups=65533(nobody),0(root)

Andreas.

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