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Re: [nmh-workers] I Could Have Sworn that the inc Command used to work.


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [nmh-workers] I Could Have Sworn that the inc Command used to work.
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:52:00 +0100

Hi Bakul,

> Privilege escalation should be done externally.

Regardless of whether it's a good idea, since the kernel is using
effective user and group IDs for testing permissions, if a user ID is
used to determine what files to access then it should be the effective
one rather than the real one.  Do you agree?

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.



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