McKown, John wrote:
Adam,
Thanks for the thought. I was, for some unfathomable reason, trying to
avoid yet another daemon being started at boot time. Why? I don't know.
But your method is interesting. Perhaps I was thinking xinet because I
really need the new process to run under the id of the user logging on
to it (because it could be used to create/modify/delete files). I guess
that it is possible to change ids in a pre-forked process. I'll need to
look into that.
It needs to be root to change to the user's ID. Therefore, I suggest
Be root until accept()
fork()*
authenticate the user
if (ok)
{
change to user
do user stuff
}
report outcome
exit()
* or similar
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Cheers
John
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