[distcc] distcc 0.14 patch for setting uid/gid

Martin Pool mbp at hpausa5.aus.hp.com
Wed Nov 20 18:41:01 GMT 2002


Onlooker 20 Nov 2002, Dwayne Rightler <drightler at technicalogic.com> wrote:
> Here is a small patch I wrote so you can start distccd with
> user/group.

Thankyou for the patch.

I think as written this is not secure, because on some platforms it
will leave the process with some root privileges.  I might be wrong,
but it needs to be checked again the "Setuid Demystified" whitepaper.

Once somebody (you/me/somebody else) checks that and writes a test
case I am happy to merge it.

-- 
Martin



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