Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com added the comment:
I hope you'll also write some unit tests for privilege.py (actually, I
hope you'll do test driven development on it).
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New submission from Travis H. travis+w-python@subspacefield.org:
It should be easier to write network servers and setuid programs in
python. One of the troublesome issues is that the semantics of the
setuid/getuid-related calls are quite complicated.
There are two papers on this subject
Travis H. travis+w-python@subspacefield.org added the comment:
The posixmodule.c seems to have a lot of really complex CPP logic about
what chunks to compile. If the target is to put the code there, I would
have to be guessing - next to the HAVE_GETEUID looks promising.
But wouldn't it be
Travis H. travis+w-python@subspacefield.org added the comment:
The routines necessary for implementing Wagner's API for dropping
privileges are:
sysconf function: available in os module
_SC_NGROUPS_MAX constant: unsure
abort function: available in os module
getresuid function: needs
Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com added the comment:
Maybe this should just be a third-party module for the time being? That
removes the question of which stdlib module to add it to for now. Plus,
since it's not just a straightforward platform API wrapper, it probably
merits separate
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
If the logic is going to be built on top of the APIs that are already
there, I agree that it would be best to implement this as a separate
module, and upload it to pypi.python.org.
Closing as won't fix.
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Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com added the comment:
It would still be nice to have the currently unimplemented platform
wrappers added to the standard library, though. For example, as solinym
pointed out, getresuid and getresgid are not currently wrapped at all.
There may be other
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
It would still be nice to have the currently unimplemented platform
wrappers added to the standard library, though. For example, as solinym
pointed out, getresuid and getresgid are not currently wrapped at all.
There may be other
Travis H. travis+w-python@subspacefield.org added the comment:
This is my first stab at creating a privilege module that implements
the API suggested in the second aforementioned paper.
It is syntactically correct but has some TODO items in it that must be
completed before it will work.
Travis H. travis+w-python@subspacefield.org added the comment:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:42:43PM +, Martin v. L??wis wrote:
Martin v. L??wis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
It would still be nice to have the currently unimplemented platform
wrappers added to the standard
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