Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > setuidgid > coreutils internal only The name setuidgid for this tool was introduced by daemontools, and various other projects have have their own versions of it: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setuidgid.html http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-setuidgid.html http://b0llix.net/perp/site.cgi?page=runuid.8 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/setuidgid.c http://offog.org/darcs/freedt/setuidgid.c (It would often be helpful for the tool to do a bit more than just setting the uid and gids -- e.g. setting $HOME...) perp has a suite of "runtools" like this that do some sort of environment setup before execing another program: http://b0llix.net/perp/site.cgi?page=manual The most useful ones (for me!) have equivalents in util-linux already: - runsession is setsid; - runlimit is prlimit; - runlock is flock -- but flock only has an su-style -c argument, so it would probably be worth fixing that at the same time as runuser? Thanks, -- Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx> <http://offog.org/> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
