On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:20:43PM -0400, Snively, John P (John) wrote: > > I changed the effective uid of my app's process using seteuid, and printed > out the real and effective uid's obtained via getuid and geteuid. No > surprises, until I tested running a child process via system() and printing > ITS real and effective uid's. The effective AND real uid of the child are > set to the effective uid of the parent -- ouch: > > before changing euid: > child: euid: 25313 ruid: 25313 > parent: euid: 25313 ruid: 25313 > > setting euid to 500 > child: euid: 500 ruid: 500 > parent: euid: 500 ruid: 25313 > > Any way around this?
Not easily. The difference between real and effective uid is just plain fake. Windows doesn't support that difference, there's just one uid (better: owner SID) attached to a process. So each new process begins its life with euid == ruid. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
