On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yeah, _our_ mod_become swaps between user ids. If the standard mod_become > > does not do that, than our sysadm coded that. (I'm unclear what he did > > exactly). But we have it running on our production machine now, without > > any problems. > > could you please explaing how a process is able to change its > user id at will? afaik only root is allowed to change the user id > and there is no way back (for a reason)
There is a way though, Linux has the concept of 'saved uids', don't ask me how it works. A process can swap back to it's safed useruid. > and if there was a way to do so, how would you prevent a certain > piece of code to do so while you allow it for another piece of > code in the same process? Which piece of code should be prevented to do this then? Derick -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
