Re: From Root to non-Root on the fly => HOW?

From: Michael Erskine (osiris@deltaville.net)
Date: 02/04/02 

From: osiris@deltaville.net (Michael Erskine)
Date: 3 Feb 2002 21:45:01 -0800

Scott;

You are ALL THERE! LOL You should have seen the flame I deleted. It
wasn't really pointed at you, it was the code listed in this thread.
There are atleast two obvious buffer overflows in it... I wrote a
polite but somewhat blunt response then deleted it... I took the
advice of one, on the list, who a very long time ago said, "First I
write the reply then I decide whether to hit the send button." Mind
you that is very loosely paraphrased and Tim will not likely recognize
the quote but it was him...

Anyway, you will do just fine.

-m- :P

"Scott Drumm" <sdrumm3@home.com> wrote in message news:<tSc78.35765$Zc.11551663@news2.rdc1.mi.home.com>...
> > >Seems like a simple question, but I haven't found the answer anywhere
> > >obvious.
> >
> > su
>
> Ahhh...Ya' know, I always thought "su" stood for "superuser" since I've only
> used it to get a root prompt from the shell and hence, never read the man
> pages...*sigh*...classic RTFM. Thanks!
>
> Bashfully,
> sdrumm3@home.com

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