On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:06:51PM -0000, Aaron Stone wrote: > So the functions to choose from are: > > setuid/setgid: Available on all platforms. Sets effective uid/gid. On Linux, > sets real and saved uid/gid if caller is root. On BSD, always sets all of > them. > > seteuid/setegid: Defined by BSD, available on Linux. Sets effective uid/gid. > > setreuid/setregid: Also BSD, available on Linux. Sets real and effective > uid/gid. > > > Unless I'm missing something, we just want to drop all priveleges and not > regain them. Since we're on privileged ports, we're running as root. So > setuid/setgid seems to make the most sense. > > Aaron
Sounds fair enough. It is key we get the problem fixed immeadietly. -- Dan Weber
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