Costin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Luby wrote: > > My point was that after you drop the root priviledges, there's no way > to get them back. > > I just double checked the manual, at least on linux.
Hmmm. I picked this up from the Solaris man pages. It is probably best for me to focus my efforts on finding a good place in Tomcat 4.x to setuid to a non-root user like Apache does instead of pursuing this probably platform specific use of setuid. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Patrick Luby Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems Phone: 408-276-7471 901 San Antonio Road, USCA14-303 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 _____________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>