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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1741] Privilege separation patch

From: "Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:18:51 +0200

> Should the group set be changed *before* setting the effective user ID?

It *must* be set before seteuid() as afterwards  you would not have
privileges to call setgrp().


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- Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1741] Privilege separation patch
  - From: Guy Harris

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