Re: [Snort-devel] Re: SIGHUP doesn't work

From: Denny Page <denny(at)cococafe.com>
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 01:43:44 EDT

> > BTW, can you not do a setreuid() back to root since the saved uid

No, you shouldn't. :-)

Once you've done a setuid to discard privilege, you should not reinstate it for any reason.

Denny

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