From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed4b6964018509ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!skymaster!nobody From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with tasking when root Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:07:53 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <26qsec.o711.ln@skymaster> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s5.feed.news.oleane.net 1091696732 2559 195.25.228.57 (5 Aug 2004 09:05:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:05:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2563 Date: 2004-08-05T10:07:53+02:00 List-Id: "Colin Paul Gloster" 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: > "[..] > > I have a distributed application that works OK [..] under Linux as a normal user. > When run as root, [..] > > [..]" > > 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr