Re: ipsvd patch

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:41AM +0300, Nikola Vladov wrote:
> I sudjest a replacemat of uidgid.c
> I'll spport numeric UID/GID
> expample:
>   -u 123:456
> 
> It can be also dangerous.  Let for example /etc/passwd has line:
> 123:x:1000:1000:Bad user:/home/Bad_user:/bin/bash

Hi, I've done this for chpst in runit 1.7.1, from the man page:

   -u [:]user[:group]
          setuidgid.   Set uid and gid to the user's uid and gid, as found
          in /etc/passwd.  If user is followed by a colon and a group, set
          the  gid  to  group's  gid,  as  found in /etc/group, instead of
          user's gid.  If group consists  of  a  colon-separated  list  of
          group  names, chpst sets the group ids of all listed groups.  If
          user is prefixed with a colon, the user and all group  arguments
          are  interpreted  as uid and gids respectivly, and not looked up
          in the password or group file.  All initial supplementary groups
          are removed.

We could include that into ipsvd I think.

Thanks, Gerrit.