On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Michael Richardson wrote:

> 
> > 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?
> 
(In spite of the fact that this has been outside of the charter of the
list and continues as such I will reply one last time.)

AFAIK ircd (2.8.21 anyway) will not start when invoked from a root shell
no matter what you have it suid or sgid to.



aron roberts
aroberts@wolfenet.com