Re: Linux rcp bug

[Thomas.Roessler () SOBOLEV RHEIN DE (Thomas Roessler)]

In article <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970203205902.9134A-100000 () piglet cc utexas edu>, Miroslav Pikus wrote:

> [nobody@slip-70-8 /]$ id
> uid=65535(nobody) gid=65535
> [nobody@slip-70-8 /]$ rcp oberheim () moe cc utexas edu:brb /tmp/test
> [nobody@slip-70-8 /]$ ls -la /tmp/test
> -rw-------   1 root     65535           0 Jan 29 11:20 /tmp/test

This is an old and well-known problem.  65535 equals -1 mod 2^16 which, in
fact, says it all:  Passing -1 as an argument to chown(), chgrp(), set*uid()
and several other system calls will leave the value in question unchanged.

tlr
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