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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: unable to attach to setuid program that as reverted it privilege
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"Michael Potter" <pottmi@gmail.com> writes:

> I will post to a Linux kernel list in a couple of days.  I posted here
> because I felt that I was likely to find someone who had the same
> problem in this group.

/proc/sys/kernel/suid_dumpable might be what you are looking for.

Andreas.

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