From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
Message-Id: <200403170824.i2H8OrqU083688@adat.davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice question - run as other
In-Reply-To: <72e06ef5740b842e877e96268483dea8@collyer.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:24:53 +0400
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> Switching to `none' is a special case.  You have to authenticate

I know that.

> cryptographically to become any other user.  If you want to really
> become none and actually change your access rights, you have to do

I want the process to be owned by none. 

> more, notably newns().  

Yes, I know that.

I didn't think it would help to add one more
call to the C code that did what it should. My puprose was to
ask whether I can do it from rc(1) without calling C programs.
If I can't that's fine, I just wanted to know whether I missed
something.

> See /bin/auth/none and its source.

OK. would help mentioning it in man somewhere.

David