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Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:36:31 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Multiple users in fetchmail
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:54:43PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:19:49AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:36:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:28:48AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > > > Grep-ing the fetchmail code, I get the following:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     $ grep 'set.*uid' *.c
> > > > >     sink.c:    seteuid(ctl->uid);
> > > > >     sink.c:    seteuid(0);
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, I presume that I will have to change the second hit above to:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     seteuid(18);
> > > > 
> > > > Better:
> > > > 
> > > >       uid_t orig_uid = getuid ();
> > > >       setuid (ctl->uid);
> > > > 
> > > >       [...]
> > > > 
> > > >       seteuid (orig_uid);
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the above suggestion -- it will be part of the final
> > > solution.
> 
> Did you really mean the following?
> 
>     uid_t orig_uid = geteuid (); // geteuid() not getuid()
>     seteuid (ctl->uid);          // seteuid() not setuid()
> 
>     [...]
> 
>     seteuid (orig_uid);
> 
> Note that fetchmail is using seteuid() not setuid().

Sure.

Corinna

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