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?

Ahhh! But you see, we're not changing the UID of ircd to root, but to
ircadmin.. so even if they flood ircd, they can only affect the ircadmin
account (which is routinely backed up anyway) :)

Melody

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