Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:54:43 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Multiple users in fetchmail In-reply-to: <20020812200316.U17250@cygbert.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020819205443.GA1836@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <20020811140204.3f1780c9.jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> <20020812103113.H17250@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020812132847.GB1928@tishler.net> <20020812153640.R17250@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020812151949.GA2168@tishler.net> <20020812200316.U17250@cygbert.vinschen.de> Corinna, > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:19:49AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:36:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:28:48AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > > > Grep-ing the fetchmail code, I get the following: > > > > > > > > $ grep 'set.*uid' *.c > > > > sink.c: seteuid(ctl->uid); > > > > sink.c: seteuid(0); > > > > > > > > So, I presume that I will have to change the second hit above to: > > > > > > > > seteuid(18); > > > > > > Better: > > > > > > uid_t orig_uid = getuid (); > > > setuid (ctl->uid); > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > seteuid (orig_uid); > > > > Thanks for the above suggestion -- it will be part of the final > > solution. Did you really mean the following? uid_t orig_uid = geteuid (); // geteuid() not getuid() seteuid (ctl->uid); // seteuid() not setuid() [...] seteuid (orig_uid); Note that fetchmail is using seteuid() not setuid(). Thanks, Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/