Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-16 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tim Arnold wrote: > "Tim Harig" wrote in message > news:ibs8h9$jm...@speranza.aioe.org... > > On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > >> On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: > >>> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > >>> > >>> > How can I enable the server process t

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-16 Thread Tim Arnold
"Tim Harig" wrote in message news:ibs8h9$jm...@speranza.aioe.org... > On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: >> On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: >>> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: >>> >>> > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's >>> > directories? >>> > If I change the

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: >> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: >> >> > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's >> > directories? >> > If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would >> > work, but then the cl

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Arnold
On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > > > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's > > directories? > > If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would > > work, but then the client couldn't remove the files put there a

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's > directories? > If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would > work, but then the client couldn't remove the files put there after > the request. Python provides os.setuid() an