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[ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)
- Subject: [ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)
- From: jaap at NLnetLabs.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis)
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:47:53 +0200
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I've heard claims that setuid was also an innovation in unix. No idea
of the construct's history.
It was. As far as I know it was also one of the first software patents
although there was a hardware implementation as well (just for good
measuers). The patent was put in the pubic domain.
Checking wikipedia, there is a page about it:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid>
jaap