Re: help with sudo

If Matt's idea doesn't work, you could always use multiple processes.  A
master running as root (via sudo), that calls several child processes.  Each
child could set thier uid, do whatever, then exit.  I think you'll have to
go a multi-process fork type route instead of a multi-threaded route,
because the threading method would set the uid for the whole process, not
just that thread.

Just my two bytes,
Matt

On 9/25/07, Matt Rechkemmer <nmlug-list-9d2Zkzbd0mmzjR9+/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:15:28PM -0600, Chris McMahon wrote:
> > Hi NMLUG...
> >
> > For a complicated reason, I need to run a script that sets euid to
> > several different values.  I have sudo ALL privileges, but I won't get
> > root on the machine in question.
> >
> > Under sudo, I can set euid once, but I haven't figured out a way to
> > set euid more than once.  Here's a toy Ruby script that shows the
> > problem:
> >
> > #################
> > euids = [2205, 2206, 2207]
> >
> > euids.each do |id|
> >
> >     Process.euid = id
> >     puts "euid is: "
> >     puts Process.euid
> >
> > end
> > ####################
>
> Hi,
>
> If you add "Process.euid = 0" after "puts Process.euid," it should work.
>
> [Ruby is not my specialty, so the code above may not be the best
> practice.]
>
> Hope this helps,
>
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