From: Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T03:33:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Reducing Permissions


Le 3/4/2005, "Jon Raphaelson" <jonraphaelson@gmail.com> a �crit:
>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).

You probably want a wrapper script to do the chroot (Dir#chroot)
and then su to start the application.

>Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>Jon

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