From: David Barrett <dbarrett@quinthar.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Setting new user:group with -daemonize?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:09:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487D2E27.1060809@quinthar.com> (raw)
Is there any way to make the qemu process change users after daemonizing?
Basically, I want to start it as root so I can have it "-redir" with a
low port (80), and then change to a non-root user after daemonizing. Is
there any way to do this currently?
Thankfully it opens the -redir port before forking, so it looks like a
straightforward change to vc.c: basically adding a call to "setuid()"
and "setgid()" after the call to "chdir()" on line 8711.
I'd update the -daemonize syntax as follows:
-daemonize [user[:group]]
Is there any interest in such a patch?
-david
PS: Why does it fork twice?
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 23:09 David Barrett [this message]
2008-07-16 1:39 ` [Qemu-devel] Setting new user:group with -daemonize? Anthony Liguori
2008-07-16 2:14 ` David Barrett
2008-07-18 17:00 ` Ian Jackson
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