Re: setuid/setgid question

Randall Gellens <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qpopper
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 8:51 AM +0200 9/12/06, Dosztál András wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  Sorry if this is a dumb question but why does 
> Qpopper need setuid/setgid rights? What happens 
> if I disable them with some host based IDS 
> (i.e. Novell AppArmor)?
>  Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>  Regards,
>  Andras

Qpopper uses setuid/setgid to drop privileges. 
It also uses seteuid/setegid at times.
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