I wrote a daemon that is started from an init-script as root, and then uses setuid and setgid to drop to a less-privileged user & group.
A user discovered that the program breaks when he uses the libpam-tmpdir module, because TMPDIR doesn't get changed to the /tmp/user/NNN directory, so the daemon tries to create files in /tmp without permission. So, what is the correct way to do this? Is there a high level function to "change userid, groupid and do the related PAM things" that I can use, or an example program to copy? Thanks for any pointers. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
