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.
Simply not
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 run
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
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.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 privileges, be it
