Re: Changing euid & egid of a perl process at runtime

[John W. Krahn]

Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
Hi,
Hello,
  I want my script started as "root" to run as  user "postfix".
How do I change the uid & gid of the process
unless ( $< ) {
    $> = getpwnam 'postfix';
    $) = getgrnam 'postfix';
    }

John
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