[distcc] distcc 0.14 patch for setting uid/gid

[Dwayne Rightler]

Dunno...  I always prefer a program to change user/drop privs itself...
probally a personal preference thing.  At work I tried to do a su -c first
and RedHat gives nodoby a shell of /bin/nologin by default so it didn't
work.  Could I change nobody's shell?  Sure.  I hacked this in for my own
use really, just decided to send the patch to the list and see if anyone
else wanted it.  I would be interested in knowing if the method I used to
drop privs isn't secure, however.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Pool" <mbp at hpausa5.aus.hp.com>
To: "Dwayne Rightler" <drightler at technicalogic.com>
Cc: <distcc at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [distcc] distcc 0.14 patch for setting uid/gid


> On 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.
>
> Also: why add that code to distcc when there seem to be perfectly good
> external methods such as su to change uid before running it?
>
> --
> Martin
>