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Subject: Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 13:33:01 +0100 (BST)
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> (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0.
> Ted, any objections?

That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse 
you into doing something ?



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