"Dhiman, Gaurav" wrote: > > I hope, if you change the "uid" or "euid" (not sure which one) in > "task_struct" of current process to the uid of root, you process will > have root privileges. This is what "login" user program do, using set > _uid systemcall. > > There are specific significance of uid, euid, suid fields in > task_struct, before modifying them, do check there significance. > > I might be wrong, not sure about it, if I am wrong, please correct me. > > Regards, > Gaurav > first do a get_current and then in the task_struct returned by get_current set the following to 0. i think you should also set fsuid and gid,egid,sgid,fsgid in addititon to the members mentioned above to give root priveleges and also for the process to read and write files readable/write'able by root. hope iam right :-) . cheers, Amith -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
