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Subject: Re: HELP INSTALLING
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 20:34:46 -0700 (PDT)
To: Ben Smithurst <ben @ scientia . demon . co . uk>
Cc: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <19980802014929.A4251@scientia.demon.co.uk>

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> > Is wrapper SUID? Normally it should be owned by root.
> 
> Mine's owned by majordom, and it works fine. Is there any benefit in
> having it owned by root?

Depends on the OS.  For POSIX environments, only root is allowed to chown 
or change effective UID's, so some steps required make root necessary.
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