problems with changing UID/GID

From: Zheng Jian-Ming (zjm@cis.nctu.edu.tw)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 08:30:28 EST

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Hi.

POSIX states that the credentials (uid, gid, capabilities, etc.) are
process-wide. So when one thread within the process changes some part
of the credentials, all threads see the change.

But, the credentials are per-task in Linux, so it's possible to have
two tasks in a process running under different UIDs.

It may have problems when we change UID/GID in one task within the
thread group.

How to deal with it? Will Linux kernel move credentials into a shared
structure?

Thank you.

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