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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem with tasking when root
Date: 06 Aug 2004 06:28:41 -0400
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Date: 2004-08-06T06:28:41-04:00

"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> "Colin Paul Gloster" <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> a =E9crit dans le messa=
ge 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 no=
rmal 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

That's not strictly true. You can set the "set-uid" bit on an
executable, and then it can change it's user id to root, even when run
from a user account.=20

But that may lead to the same problem you are having.

--=20
-- Stephe