[distcc] distcc 0.14 patch for setting uid/gid

[Jean-Eric Cuendet]

> 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.

You can give:
su - <user> -s /bin/bash -c "distccd"
This overrride the shell defined for this user.
You must be root to do that of course.
-jec