Re: Not understanding the code to drop privileges in perlsec

If you don't understand the program, then you should observe what it does. As it was previously suggested, should you trace through the program and see the effects on the real and effective ids.

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Re^2: Not understanding the code to drop privileges in perlsec by Nocturnus (Scribe) on Feb 22, 2024 at 19:52 UTC
Thank you very much for bothering. I've got it :-) But I did so and couldn't find a situation where lines 7 and 8 actually effected anything. That is, in every test I conducted, `$UID` was equal to `$orig_UID` before line 7; the same goes for `$GID` and `$orig_GID`. I have described this in my first post here.	[reply] [d/l] [select]