Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-16 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tim Arnold wrote: > "Tim Harig" wrote in message > news:ibs8h9$jm...@speranza.aioe.org... > > On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > >> On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: > >>> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > >>> > >>> > How can I enable the server process t

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-16 Thread Tim Arnold
"Tim Harig" wrote in message news:ibs8h9$jm...@speranza.aioe.org... > On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: >> On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: >>> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: >>> >>> > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's >>> > directories? >>> > If I change the

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: >> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: >> >> > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's >> > directories? >> > If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would >> > work, but then the cl

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Arnold
On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > > > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's > > directories? > > If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would > > work, but then the client couldn't remove the files put there a

Re: remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote: > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's > directories? > If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would > work, but then the client couldn't remove the files put there after > the request. Python provides os.setuid() an

remote server and effective uid

2010-11-15 Thread Tim Arnold
Hi, I have a remote server on a FreeBSD box with clients connecting from linux, all running python2.7. I've setup the remote server as an inetd service (currently running as 'nobody'). Both client and server have access to the same file systems. How can I enable the server process to write into th