On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:56:24 -0800, cassiope wrote: > I'm changing the uid and gid in the daemon (which runs with root > permissions > until the fork and uid/gid change). The uid and gid are confirmed by > printing os.getuid() and os.getgid() in the script.
Those tell you the *real* UID/GID. Filesystem checks are performed using the *effective* UID/GID. You need to set them with seteuid/setegid and check them with geteuid/getegid. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
