cassiope wrote: > The strange thing is that even with the right user-id, I cannot seem > to write to the directory, getting an IOError exception. Changing the > directory to world-writable fixes this. I can confirm the uid and gid > for the script by having the script print these values just before > trying to create/write the file. Becoming the same lesser user, I > have no problem writing a file to the same directory.
Are you able to write to the directory with the user id when you tried to create a file manually? How are you changing the uid and gid of your script? IIRC you have to set the effective user id with os.seteuid() and os.setegid(). Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
