Re: starting a process as a different user

in reply to starting a process as a different user

Create a setuid C program that runs the perl script as approperiate user. (Use a setuid-root program and call setuid from it if you need to change the real id too.)

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Re: Re: starting a process as a different user by ctilmes (Vicar) on Apr 15, 2004 at 15:54 UTC
Better to use sudo than try to write this securely yourself.	[reply]

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