Re: Work around rpm deadlocking with "setlock2"

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Wolfenden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 2) The setlock2 program I posted last month (to work around bugs
>    in rpm) had some bugs, which have since been fixed. I've also
>    written an as_user program (based on setuidgid) which sets
>    auxilliary groups as well as the primary GID (I needed this
>    in order to run a service as a non-root user).

set_supplementary_groups by Mark Delany also does the trick for this.  It's
listed at qmail.org:

http://qmail.org/supplementary-groups

Charles
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