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  1. dchoulette

    How to keep effective uid in awk 'system()' calls

    Hello. I run an awk script owned by root with suid bit on. The effective uid of the process running the awk script is root as expected (I can access to file only readable by root), but within the awk 'system' function the effective uids are lost. For example, in my script the command...

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