Subject: Re: Starting daemons in rc as non-root
To: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@voicenet.com>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/12/1996 21:38:12
> What we do here is chmod ircd to 4755 and change the ownership to ircadmin. :)

  Given the buffer overflow problems that have crept up in ircd, this is
tantamount to giving people your root password. Does ircd know how to give up 
its root priveledges in the saved uid?