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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List?
Date: 27 Apr 1997 12:06:50 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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tqbf@char-star.rdist.org (Thomas H. Ptacek) writes:


>26 Apr 1997 10:46:19 +0100 dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie:
>>Our to curiosity how do you decide when to clear the flag ?

>When the proc structure is freed?

I presume this is when a process exits ? Doesn't this mean
that if you run login then everything under that after the
login had the issugid bit set ?

I'm sure I'm being dense.

	David.