* Changing another process' UID
@ 2009-11-10 9:20 Enrico Weigelt
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From: Enrico Weigelt @ 2009-11-10 9:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux kernel list
Hi folks,
for properly porting Plan9's factotum to Linux, I need some way
to change an running process's uid/gid.
Plan9 has special devices /dev/caphash and /dev/capuse for that.
Some time ago I chose to hack up a different, a bit more generic
way: adding special new uid / gid files to the /proc entries,
so another (root) process can change the uid of an already
running process.
I suppose there's a better way via Linux's caps api, isnt it ?
thx
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