Dunno... I always prefer a program to change user/drop privs itself... probally a personal preference thing. At work I tried to do a su -c first and RedHat gives nodoby a shell of /bin/nologin by default so it didn't work. Could I change nobody's shell? Sure. I hacked this in for my own use really, just decided to send the patch to the list and see if anyone else wanted it. I would be interested in knowing if the method I used to drop privs isn't secure, however.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Pool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dwayne Rightler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [distcc] distcc 0.14 patch for setting uid/gid > On 20 Nov 2002, Dwayne Rightler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a small patch I wrote so you can start distccd with > > user/group. > > Also: why add that code to distcc when there seem to be perfectly good > external methods such as su to change uid before running it? > > -- > Martin > _______________________________________________ distcc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
