From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: gogi-k@gogi.tv
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: One process with multiple user ids.
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:53:48 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702C4F4.5060107@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710021256.08469.gogi-k@gogi.tv>
Giuliano Gagliardi wrote:
> I have a server that has to switch to different user ids, but because it does
> other complex things, I would rather not have it run as root. I only need the
> server to be able to switch to certain pre-defined user ids.
Why don't you use group security instead of user security; you already
have supplemental group id's.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 10:56 One process with multiple user ids Giuliano Gagliardi
2007-10-02 11:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <200710021333.05826.gogi-k@gogi.tv>
2007-10-02 11:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-02 11:39 ` Giuliano Gagliardi
2007-10-02 11:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-02 11:34 ` Giuliano Gagliardi
2007-10-02 13:23 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-08 10:15 ` Helge Hafting
2007-10-02 17:11 ` Chris Snook
2007-10-02 22:23 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-10-02 22:38 ` Bill Davidsen
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