On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:19:16PM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: > I'm writing a small network daemon program and > want it to drop priviliges after it opens a listening port.
You might also be interested in looking at the ucspi-tcp and ipsvd packages. They both include programs to listen on a port and change UID before accepting any connections. ucspi-tcp's homepage: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html ipsvd's homepage: http://smarden.org/ipsvd/ (ipsvd is also packaged by OpenBSD.)
