On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I want to patch xfstt to give up its root privs after it has opened and > written to its database...that way, by the time it is servicing users > it is running as a user process. > > My first thought was to hard cod it to at some point change its UID to > nobody...I havn't been able to make this work though :( > I really wannawrite this ..but am a bit stumped. > > How woudl you suggest going about doing this? > My thought was a command line option to specify a username to change to... > then getpwent to find it and then set UID GID etc to it. > > What is the proper call to change UID/GID?
POSIX: setuid() . Don't use seteuid() . > > is there an easy way to add this? > > btw I would apreciate a CC onm any replies...I sometimes miss list > discussions do to lack of time to read them. +---------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | R Garth Wood | Making waves... | | Stormix Technologies Inc. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
