carrel@cisco.com writes:
> 	NetBSD's route(1) uses getuid() to decide if the the correct user
> is running it.  But it would be better to use geteuid() since route can be
> run from a setuid program and that is valid.

route is a setuid root program, so euid will always be 0.  If you
need to call it from a setuid program, you'll have to set the ruid
to 0 before running it.

	Mark
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