On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Peter Samuel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> > ...
> > Note that your uid and groupid will differ, as will the executable
> > paths. If you have perl a more portable construct is:
> >
> > /opt/local/etc/tcpserver \
> > -u ` perl -e 'print scalar getpwnam qmaild' ` \
> > -g ` perl -e 'print scalar getgrnam nofiles' ` \
> > etc...
>
> I've never had any problems running
>
> tcpserver -u qmaild -g nofiles
>
> Have I been wrong all this time?
Just did another test. I WAS wrong all this time :(
You've got to use numbers only. If you use names, as I was, then
tcpserver ends up giving them a value of 0 (output of scan_ulong())
and sets effective user id to root. Nasty.
Regards
Peter
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