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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2014-12-05 22:26:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2014-12-05 22:26:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/s6-setuidgid.html b/doc/s6-setuidgid.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f12ae04 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/s6-setuidgid.html @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +<html> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> + <title>s6: the s6-setuidgid program</title> + <meta name="Description" content="s6: the s6-setuidgid program" /> + <meta name="Keywords" content="s6 command s6-setuidgid uid gid groups privilege dropping loss user change su" /> + <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> + </head> +<body> + +<p> +<a href="index.html">s6</a><br /> +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> +<a href="http://skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> +</p> + +<h1> The s6-setuidgid program </h1> + +<p> +s6-setuidgid executes a program as another user. +</p> + +<h2> Interface </h2> + +<pre> + s6-setuidgid <em>account</em> <em>prog...</em> +</pre> + +<ul> + <li> If <em>account</em> contains a colon, it is interpreted as <em>uid:gid</em>, +else it is interpreted as a username and looked up by name in the account +database. </li> + <li> If <em>account</em> is unknown, s6-setuidgid exits 1. </li> + <li> s6-setuidgid sets its (real and effective) uid and gid to those of <em>account</em>. +It also sets the list of supplementary groups to the correct one for <em>account</em> +according to the group database. </li> +<li> Then it executes into <em>prog...</em>. </li> +</ul> + +<h2> Notes </h2> + +<p> + s6-setuidgid can only be run as root. Its main use is to drop root privileges before +starting a daemon. +</p> + +</body> +</html> |