Re: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1988 03:27

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In article <186@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes:
>*sigh*  Ok, so sendmail is not the best choice of an example.  Here is another:
>Try the combination of chfn, chsh and passwd.  Same principles apply for this
>one.  I am sure that there are others around though.

What system are you using?  I've just tried a couple of machines, and
chfn, chsh, passwd not only have different I-numbers, they aren't even
the same size, and strict System V has only /bin/passwd.  If they were
the same, the interface-via-set-group-id-scripts method would work.

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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs
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Date: 28 Jul 88 03:27:39 GMT
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