Jeff McNeil wrote: > Sure, start the daemon as root, write the appropriate files, and then > drop permissions using os.setegid and then os.seteuid. You can chown > the file before priv. drop to your target user so that it can be > removed when your exit handlers run. Alternatively, you can reclaim > root at cleanup as it's stored as your saved UID.
Nice. One thing: how do I get the uid and gid for the target user? In general, I know the name of the target user, but the uid/gid assigned by the OS to that user could be different on different systems. -- Jeffrey Barish -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
