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setuid sticky bit
I have a binary. It is having the following permissions

rws rws rwx mqm:mqm runmqtrm

The same program on another machine is

rws rws rwx root: mqm runmqtrm

This program is a setuid program.
This is what my understanding is. Whatever user the program is started under, it will finally be running as rmuser.

Now if I start the program as root on the second one it starts ok.
If I start the program as mqm on the first box it doesn't work. On the second box if I start it as root it works.

Can somebody explain me this.

Thanks
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rplay.hosts

RPLAY.HOSTS(5)							File Formats Manual						    RPLAY.HOSTS(5)

NAME

       rplay.hosts - rplay host authentication database

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/local/etc/rplay.hosts

DESCRIPTION

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       where

       hostname       is the name of a remote host or a host's IP address.  Wildcards can be used within IP addresses  to  match  multiple  hosts.
		      The wildcard character is "*".

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EXAMPLE

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