in reply to How to change the userid of a running external process

macron0:

If you can do it, it's a security problem. Hence, I expect that the OS is going to make it as difficult as possible.

Gee, I can't read file XYZ because it's owned by fred. OK, I'll make a file reader owned by fred to read it! Huzzah!

...roboticus

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