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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-07-18 14:25:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-07-18 14:25:42 +0000 |
| commit | 880f5b4bc39386da3a4315644519bd7b5c438d6c (patch) | |
| tree | 524465d266e31b79f5cfba178311285fd07214d0 /man3/system.3 | |
| parent | da2d9dad4e4da4a8a84998ce5d6e5d8ddf0ee793 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-880f5b4bc39386da3a4315644519bd7b5c438d6c.tar.gz | |
Consistent use of "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID".
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/system.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/system.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3 index 4996413ee5..d1d0d886e2 100644 --- a/man3/system.3 +++ b/man3/system.3 @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ to check the exit status of the child. E.g. .PP Do not use .BR system () -from a program with set-UID or set-GID privileges, +from a program with set-user-ID or set-group-ID privileges, because strange values for some environment variables might be used to subvert system integrity. Use the @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ family of functions instead, but not or .BR execvp (3). .BR system () -will not, in fact, work properly from programs with set-UID or set-GID -privileges on systems on which +will not, in fact, work properly from programs with set-user-ID or +set-group-ID privileges on systems on which .I /bin/sh is bash version 2, since bash 2 drops privileges on startup. (Debian uses a modified bash which does not do this when invoked as |