[PD-dev] seteuid vs. setuid
Tim Blechmann
tim at klingt.org
Sun Jan 11 13:44:03 CET 2009
> I was just merging 0.41 vanilla into pd-extended 0.40 and noticed
> something worthwhile to point out. It seems there isn't a patch
> submitted for this, but it is quite simple. Basically, in s_inter.c,
> 'seteuid()' is used to lose setuid privileges. As far as I understand
> it, seteuid() allows the program to keep the root privilege and switch
> back and forth between root and non-root.
hm, why does pd need root privileges, anyway? shouldn't the resource
limiting be handled by pam these days?
tim
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