Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:07:29 +0200 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: setuids() like setgroups() ? |
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:06:31PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I wonder if it would be a good idea to introduce a setuids() call that > behaves a bit like like setgroups(), in that it would be possible > with setuid() to switch between the uids. > > That way, a multi-process server like apache would be able to switch > between used-ids for different virtual hosts, yet it wouldn't have to > keep running as root. > > For it to be useful for apache (with perhaps hundreds of virtual hosts) > one should also be able to enter a range instead of a list of uids. > > Is there any OS that already implements something like this which we > can model it after, or is there a way to tie this into the capability > system (I can't see how), or is this a plain stupid idea :/ >
I've probably said this many times before, but passing being able to pass an UID from one process to another using IPC is more flexible than the above.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Fast Search & Transfer, Trondheim, Norway
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