Re: DropPrivileges problem

'Björn Pedersen' via cherrypy-users <cherrypy-users-/[email protected]>
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I missed the line that the job is started sa your account. You can only 
drop privileges if running as a privileged user (root).


Am Freitag, 29. April 2016 14:26:32 UTC+2 schrieb Aaron Dalton:
>
> Thanks, Björn. I'm not entering that number anywhere, though. I'm dropping 
> to a specified "web" user (u/gid 25000). In fact, my uid and gid are both 
> 246576, according to "id".
>
> On Friday, 29 April 2016 01:13:04 UTC-6, Björn Pedersen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> KeyError: 'getgrgid(): gid not found: 246576'
>>>
>>> 246576 is my personal UID. The hosting service is running the script as 
>>> me, and the intent is that once started, privileges will drop to to uid 
>>> 25000. What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks!!
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  246576 is your *uid*, so you can not use it as gid. Find the correct 
>> group id (as it seems to be a unix host, running 'id' should give you that 
>> information.
>>
>> Björn
>>
>

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