Re: setuids() like setgroups() ?

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
16 Apr 1999 11:15:55 +0200


miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:

|> I wonder if it would be a good idea to introduce a setuids() call that
|> behaves a bit like like setgroups(), in that it would be possible
|> with setuid() to switch between the uids.
[...]
|> Is there any OS that already implements something like this which we
|> can model it after, or is there a way to tie this into the capability
|> system (I can't see how), or is this a plain stupid idea :/

AFAIK the Hurd has this.

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