Aaron S. Hawley wrote: > Looks like RCS doesn't respect EUID: > > http://jspwiki.org/wiki/RCSFileProviderIssues > I'm not sure the information here is really applicable, since it's talking of UID != EUID, and RCS using the real ID (and of course, I'm not using su at all). As I stated, I'm setting *both* UID & EUID to a client account. In fact, once both are changed from the original root account, I don't see how RCS is even finding "root" to use as the file locker.
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Will Parsons wrote: > >> I am running a daemon which executes RCS commands on behalf of remote >> clients (platform is FreeBSD). The daemon attempts to set its real and >> effective UID to that of the requesting client, and printing out the UID & >> EUID seems to verify that this is successful. Nevertheless, when a file is >> checked out, it gets locked as root rather the new UID. I thought that the >> lock should be owned by the real UID, is this not necessarily the case? _______________________________________________ help-rcs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-rcs
