Subj : Re: Setting priorities as a regular user
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 02:49 pm

Adam enlightened us with:
> But would there be a way to find out what user executed the setuid
> root program, so it would know which user to run the program as?

man geteuid

> Otherwise I could make a script that is actually used to run the
> setuid root program, and pass "whoami" to it as a parameter.  But
> I'd rather avoid that extra level of complexity.

And rightly so.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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