On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Felipe Gasper <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may be a simple scenario, but I’m not finding how to do this in node:
>
> *) User A logs in as “bob”.
> Server drops privs to do “bob”’s bidding as “bob”.
>
>
> *) User B logs in as “bob”.
> Server drops privs to do “jane”’s bidding as “jane”.
>
>
> Since Node doesn’t fork for an incoming connection, is it still possible
> to have two concurrent execution threads that run with different privileges?

Not directly. You can spin up a child process that drops privileges
and send either the socket or the traffic from the master to the
child.

Sending over sockets (handles) will require reading the source - the
functionality is there but it's undocumented.

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