On Sunday, March 25, 2012 6:22:10 PM UTC-6, Ben Finney wrote:
> jeff writes:
>
> > On Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:04:55 PM UTC-6, Heiko Wundram wrote:
> > > Am 25.03.2012 23:32, schrieb jeff:
> > > > but I have to be able to get back to root privilege so I can't use
> > > > setgid and setuid.
> > >
jeff <3bee...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:04:55 PM UTC-6, Heiko Wundram wrote:
> > Am 25.03.2012 23:32, schrieb jeff:
> > > but I have to be able to get back to root privilege so I can't use
> > > setgid and setuid.
> >
> > Simply not possible (i.e., you can't drop root privi
On Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:04:55 PM UTC-6, Heiko Wundram wrote:
> Am 25.03.2012 23:32, schrieb jeff:
> > After the os.setgroups, os.getgroups says that the process is not in
> > any groups, just as you would expect... I can suppress
> > membership in the root group only by doing os.setgid and os.s
Am 25.03.2012 23:32, schrieb jeff:
After the os.setgroups, os.getgroups says that the process is not in
any groups, just as you would expect... I can suppress
membership in the root group only by doing os.setgid and os.setuid
before the os.system call (in which case I wind up in the group of
the
Run this test program as root:
import os
print "before:", os.getgroups()
os.system("groups")
os.setgroups([])
print "after:", os.getgroups()
os.system("groups")
After the os.setgroups, os.getgroups says that the process is not in any
groups, just as you would expect. However the groups command
