Re: using mount from SUID scripts?

[Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>]

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> Unfortunately, the snippit of code here doesn't do the job... after the
> first two lines, the UID is unchanged, while the EUID is still 0 (root).  I
> used system "/usr/bin/id" to verify this.  /bin/mount is still complaining.
> 
> Oh, wait... $> is effective and $< is real.  So that first line should be
> ($r, $e) =3D ($<, $>); -- this makes everything happy!

drat... I thought I had that right...

Also the last line should be swapped too:

	($r, $e) = ($<, $>);
	$< =3D $e;
	<<<do stuff>>>
	($<, $>) = ($r,$e);

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Jesse I Pollard, II
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