Am Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:33:27 +0200 schrieb David Härdeman: > > I'm used from C programming to use setresuid() to change the real, > effective and saved uid in one go, and although the os module has some > of the set*uid() functions it doesn't seem to have setresuid().
no - python offers the posix function setuid. Have a look here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/setuid.html Without any further knowledge this should do everything you want from it and it is available from the posix and/or the os module. HTH Matthias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
