GNU bug report logs - #8700
Simple way to switch user/group permissions without requiring PAM sessions

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson <at> debian.org>

Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 13:14:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 8700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ian Jackson <ijackson <at> chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 8700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>,
	Colin Watson <cjwatson <at> debian.org>
Subject: Re: bug#8700: Simple way to switch user/group permissions without
	requiring PAM sessions
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:51 +0100

Pádraig Brady writes ("Re: bug#8700: Simple way to switch user/group permissions without requiring PAM sessions"):
> On 05/19/2011 03:22 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> >> Every so often I wish that there existed (preferably in the Debian base
> >> system) a tool analogous to chroot that drops privileges from root to a
> >> nominated user, group, etc. and runs a given program.

chiark-really (Source: chiark-utils) has "really" which can do this,
but of course it's not in Debian base and being set-id for its other
purpose it's probably not suitable.

OTOH the code is trivial and the behaviour is I think exactly as
desired.

Ian.
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