On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 02:55:11PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > SO_PEERCRED apparently returns the euid/egid of the original > > process. The UNIX "saved" uid was invented precisely to allow > > temporarily lowering the euid and later on returning to it. Maybe > > that's what we should use here: if the uid to run something is is not > > root: drop to the final euid temporarily, making use of the save uid > > to return to root, then connecting to journald, and then returning > > back to the root euid for the rest of the way. ugly, but unix. > Yeah, that sounds like a better option. I'll remake the patch. This was rather straightforward, I just pushed the fix.
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