Michael Richardson wrote:
"Pekka" == Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Pekka> Have you checked the code in the CVS? It already includes a Pekka> "droproot" option.

    Pekka> Yours is slightly different, though, as it uses
    Pekka> (Linux-specific?) capabilities.  I'm not sure if it's
    Pekka> necessary when we already drop the root privileges.

  Yes, they are Linux specific.
  We should have a file:
       droppriv-FOO.c

IRIX, for one, also supports capabilities.

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Jefferson Ogata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (N-CIRT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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