Hi, On Sat, 01.08.2009 at 17:13:43 +0300, Jussi Peltola <[email protected]> wrote: > Why should fork touch user id's?
I was under the impression that only the effective userid should be inherited by a forked process, not the real user id. Also, the inconsistency in the display of the tools doesn't appear to be reflected in the man pages. > http://search.cpan.org/~tlbdk/Privileges-Drop-1.01/lib/Privileges/Drop.pm Thanks for the hint. Not knowing about that, I so far assigned to both uid and gid variables, and that seemed to do the trick. -- Kind regards, --Toni++
