[ale] C question

[David Tomaschik]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2013, at 6:26 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
>
> Having a shell in between shouldn't be a problem…
>
>
> It is.  Here is what currently happens.  C program that is setuid calls
> another C program via system().  The problem is, system spawns a new shell
> and the euid is not retained, hence when attempting to execute the 2nd C
> program, I get permission denied.
>

Is there a reason you couldn't just call setreuid() in the first program to
make the real uid be the effective uid?

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