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Re: Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups()

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jeff <3beezer@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:04:55 PM UTC-6, Heiko Wundram wrote:
> > Am 25.03.2012 23:32, schrieb jeff:
> > > but I have to be able to get back to root privilege so I can't use
> > > setgid and setuid.
> > 
> > Simply not possible (i.e., you can't drop root privileges, be it by 
> > setuid()/setgid() or removing yourself from groups with setgroups()), 
> > and later reacquire them _in the same process_. See the discussion of 
> > how to implement privilege separation at
> > 
> > http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html
>
> os.system("su -m <unprivileged_user> -c '<command string>'")
>
> seems to do the trick.

Yes, because ‘os.system’ explicitly starts a new process.

It can't be done in the same process, as Heiko correctly said.

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Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups() jeff <3beezer@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 14:32 -0700
  Re: Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups() Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-03-26 00:04 +0200
    Re: Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups() jeff <3beezer@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 16:33 -0700
    Re: Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups() jeff <3beezer@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 16:33 -0700
      Re: Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-26 11:22 +1100
        Re: Inconsistency between os.getgroups and os.system('groups') after os.setgroups() jeff <3beezer@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 07:41 -0700

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