Bug#663257: ITP: libprivileges-drop-perl -- module to make it simple to drop all privileges
Package: wnpp
Owner: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org
* Package name : libprivileges-drop-perl
Version : 1.03
Upstream Author : Troels Liebe Bentsen <troels@infopro.dk>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Privileges-Drop/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : module to make it simple to drop all privileges
Privileges::Drop tries to simplify the process of dropping privileges. This
can be useful when your Perl program needs to bind to privileged ports, etc.
This module is much like Proc::UID, except that it's implemented in pure
Perl. Special care has been taken to also drop saved uid on platforms that
support this, currently only test on Linux.
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