[cs631apue] question about using access(2) to check file permissions

[lbustama]

Hi Professor,

Would sws or other web server ever be run using setuid or setgid to a 
different user or group, root for example.

I was wondering what the desired behavior for serving files would be in 
that case. access(2) uses the real uid and gid to check for file access 
permissions, but if we are running as setuid of root we might want to 
server files as long as they are within the server's configuration 
parameters.

Thanks,

Luis