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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
Date: 4 Jan 2002 23:05:34 -0800
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Followup to:  <20020102174824.A21408@thyrsus.com>
By author:    "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> But a setuid program *will not solve my problem*.
> 
> The person running the autoconfigurator is not and should not be doing so 
> as root.  Requiring the person to stop and sun sudo just so the 
> autoconfigurator can proceed is exactly the sort of pointless 
> obstacle we should *not* be putting in front of users!
> 

Could you please look up what a setuid program *IS*?

[Hint: a normal user can run them, and they get temporarily elevated
privilege for the duration of that process only.]

	-hpa
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