Re: tbinit suid root (Problem?)

Ross Hagglund writes: > >I was recently talking to a site running online 5.0 and the site >administrator mentioned that he didn't like application software >which was set user id to root. He was particularly concerned with >tbinit since it was "a little more complex than cat(1)". No amount >of reassurance would change his mind, coming from a systems background For what it is worth, after setting ulimit to the sky and umask to 0, we revert back to the id of the user running tbinit (usually informix). For sqlturbo, it is pretty much the same thing. Dave -- Disclaimer: These opinions are not those of Informix Software, Inc. ************************************************************************** "I look back with some satisfaction on what an idiot I was when I was 25, but when I do that, I'm assuming I'm no longer an idiot." - Andy Rooney