Re: Proper way to set login.conf control for application started as root and soon drop privileges

2006-02-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I was trying to control some applications that start as root and soon after are drop privileges to their own user, but looks like I am not very successful. To see if it was possible to do so, I tested with httpd for example, but searching on marc,

Re: Proper way to set login.conf control for application started as root and soon drop privileges

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Otto Moerbeek wrote: So, I get it to mean that you can't use the login.conf to actually control their resources. So, this bear the question then as to what other alternative can you use, if any? su -m -c login_class command Ah men... Sometime, the answer one search for are just to sample,

Proper way to set login.conf control for application started as root and soon drop privileges

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I was trying to control some applications that start as root and soon after are drop privileges to their own user, but looks like I am not very successful. To see if it was possible to do so, I tested with httpd for example, but searching on marc, I came across a posting from Henning on a