Re: fork with user privilegs/rights?

From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.programmer
Subject	Re: fork with user privilegs/rights?
Date	2016-03-18 21:00 +0000
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Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> writes:
> On 03/18/2016 12:19 PM, Heinz-Mario Frühbeis wrote:
>> AFAIK has a forked process the same user privilegs/rights from which is forked.
>> But is it possible to fork e.g. with/for sudo-rights, or if, again with normal
>> rights?
>
> You might want to check out Fefe's talk on privilege dropping for Unix
> daemons and other privileged programs on Unix from December.
>
> <https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7284-check_your_privileges>

Since I'm somewhat nosey, I tried to do that. However, after close to 9
minutes of pointless babbling of the lady who came up first, I've chosen
to abort the attempt.

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fork with user privilegs/rights? Heinz-Mario Frühbeis <Div@Earlybite.individcore.de> - 2016-03-18 12:19 +0100
  Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-03-18 09:55 -0400
  Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 07:28 -0700
    Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-18 14:45 +0000
    Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-03-18 14:45 +0000
  Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-18 14:29 +0000
    Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? spud@potato.field - 2016-03-18 14:41 +0000
      Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-18 15:10 +0000
        Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? spud@potato.field - 2016-03-18 15:17 +0000
          Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-18 15:35 +0000
            Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? spud@potato.field - 2016-03-18 15:45 +0000
              Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-18 19:15 +0000
                Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2016-03-21 14:23 +0000
      Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 09:19 -0600
    Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 09:15 -0600
  Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> - 2016-03-18 17:29 +0100
    Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2016-03-18 21:00 +0000
      Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> - 2016-03-21 11:23 +0100
        Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2016-03-22 16:52 +0000
  Re: fork with user privilegs/rights? gordonb.9720g@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2016-03-19 00:04 -0500

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