"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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