Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754829AbXJBWYJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:24:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752581AbXJBWX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:23:57 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:34902 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752252AbXJBWX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:23:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4702C4F4.5060107@davidnewall.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:53:48 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gogi-k@gogi.tv CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: One process with multiple user ids. References: <200710021256.08469.gogi-k@gogi.tv> In-Reply-To: <200710021256.08469.gogi-k@gogi.tv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 12 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/