Re: One process with multiple user ids.

[David Newall]

Giuliano Gagliardi wrote:
> I have a server that has to switch to different user ids, but because it does 
> other complex things, I would rather not have it run as root. I only need the 
> server to be able to switch to certain pre-defined user ids.

Why don't you use group security instead of user security; you already 
have supplemental group id's.
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