Am Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:33:27 +0200 schrieb David Härdeman:
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> 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
I'm currently working on a python daemon which needs to be able to
correctly drop privileges after opening ports and files that it needs to
open as root.
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