Hello Monks,

Thank you for your reply's

What I am trying to do is change an apache child to the user and group id's that matches the vhost when a request comes in.

I managed to do this in mod_perl but the problem is that once changed to a certain userid you cannot go back (which makes sense). and apache had to run as root which is also a bit....

So the only option is to only use the child once and let it die or (and I haven't figured out how to do this) remember which userid a child has and once a next request comes in reuse this child. But this seems impossible in apache since thehe connection get passed to a child and only after wards it gets decided which vhost it should handle.

So I thought it would be nice if I could have a child signal a process running as root and have that process change the childs id and when the child signals it's finished finishes change it back.

In the responses I got so far it seems this is rather impossible or causes very much overhead.

But if anyone has a good suggestion for this it would be appriciated.

Regards

Hans

In reply to Re^2: How to change the userid of a running external process by macron0
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