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From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: builtin setuid and setgid commands
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:16:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pdy98830624063bc12cb7255de8@[192.168.1.2]> (raw)

Zshell should have builtins to call the setuid and setgid system calls.

With this feature, one can write a shell script that is executed by 
root but runs as another user.

The usefulness of this feature came up in the context of the 
mysql.server script, which starts/stops the server and is run by root 
at boot time.  It would be nice if the script itself could use a 
setuid command to ensure that it is running as the mysql user.

Thanks

Dave


             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-12 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-12 19:16 Dave Yost [this message]
     [not found] <pdy98830624063bc12cb7255de8@192.168.1.2>
2006-09-12 19:51 ` Mikael Magnusson
2006-09-12 20:57   ` Dave Yost
2006-09-13  0:56     ` Bart Schaefer

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