On Oct 2 2007 12:56, Giuliano Gagliardi wrote: > >I have a server that has to switch to different user ids, but because it does >other complex things, I would rather not have it run as root. I only need the >server to be able to switch to certain pre-defined user ids.
All you need is CAP_SETUID. Also see man setresuid, where you could, I think, use saved_uid=0 if you do not like to use real_uid=0 effective_uid=non-0. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
