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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice question - run as other
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If all you wanted to do was change the user id, that
would be true.  However, without running newns() it's
kind of useless/dangerous.
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> well, seems it would be bad if all you had to do to change userid was 
> echo into '#c/user'

but if echo was built in to the shell (as it is in some other systems)
that's all you *would* have to do!

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