From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Problem with tasking when root
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:07:53 +0200
Date: 2004-08-05T10:07:53+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26qsec.o711.ln@skymaster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnch2acb.q7m.Colin_Paul_Gloster@camac.dcu.ie
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"Colin Paul Gloster" <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> a �crit dans le message de news:slrnch2acb.q7m.Colin_Paul_Gloster@camac.dcu.ie...
> In article news:mdjqec.g9d.ln@skymaster Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> "[..]
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> I have a distributed application that works OK [..] under Linux as a normal user.
> When run as root, [..]
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> [..]"
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> I have no useful suggestion, but why do you need to run it as root?
Because it is a system utility that needs to perform command files with the identity of the user of the command file.
Only root can do a set-user-id
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-04 12:05 Problem with tasking when root Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-08-04 12:15 ` Duncan Sands
[not found] ` <200408041415.06638.baldrick@free.fr>
2004-08-04 13:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
[not found] ` <01b701c47a24$14619f90$f60206c0@VOYAGER>
2004-08-04 13:20 ` Duncan Sands
2004-08-04 18:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-08-04 13:11 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-08-04 15:28 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-08-04 17:31 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-08-05 8:06 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-08-04 18:23 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2004-08-05 8:07 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2004-08-06 10:28 ` Stephen Leake
2004-08-06 4:54 ` Simon Wright
2004-08-06 7:58 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-08-06 17:42 ` Frode Tennebø
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