On Jan 4, 7:46 am, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:56:24 -0800, cassiope wrote: > > I'm changing the uid and gid in the daemon (which runs with root > > permissions > > until the fork and uid/gid change). The uid and gid are confirmed by > > printing os.getuid() and os.getgid() in the script. > > Those tell you the *real* UID/GID. Filesystem checks are performed using > the *effective* UID/GID. > > You need to set them with seteuid/setegid and check them with > geteuid/getegid.
To Cameron: the file doesn't (yet) exist; and it has the correct full path. To "Nobody" : hey, this seems interesting. First test, invoking seteuid() and setegid() didn't help - but strange thing was these calls didn't show up in the strace, so perhaps I wasn't testing what I thought I was. I'll have to check this later as people are now back to work and needing the daemon for its other functions... Thanks for your ideas! I'll be checking it more later... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
