Retirement of setuid utility to access files owned by a different user

Deprecation

• The setuid utility is no longer used as it is considered a security risk.
• There are several alternative ways how to access files owned by a different user:
  • use of Agents that can be operated to run in multiple instances for different accounts from the same Agent installation
  • use of operating system permissions, e.g. ACLs, to allow access to a file
  • use of sudo and su to switch the user context

Deprecation History

• Release 1.9: deprecated
• Release 1.10: unsupported
• Release 1.11: removed