Hmm... From what I gather from the whitepaper they recommend setresuid() for systems with it (linux) and setreuid() for those without.. I used seteuid() + setuid() which I _believe_ does the same thing as setreuid().. Of course I could be totally wrong.... any thoughts?
Martin Pool said: > Onlooker 20 Nov 2002, Dwayne Rightler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Here is a small patch I wrote so you can start distccd with >> user/group. > > Thankyou for the patch. > > I think as written this is not secure, because on some platforms it will > leave the process with some root privileges. I might be wrong, but it > needs to be checked again the "Setuid Demystified" whitepaper. > > Once somebody (you/me/somebody else) checks that and writes a test case > I am happy to merge it. > > -- > Martin _______________________________________________ distcc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
