From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T03:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Reducing Permissions


On Apr 3, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Jon Raphaelson wrote:

> Is there a way to programtically reduce permissions that doesn't 
> involve   `su -l #{config.name}`? I need the server started as root so 
> that it can do a chroot, but then I don't want it executing as root, 
> but as a special user created for the purpose. Also, I'm hoping that 
> there is something already done that's cross-platform(ish).
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!

Not really that answer you asked for, but I just use Dir#chroot to 
isolate a process like that.  Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II