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Re: Policy question



On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, John Goerzen wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 06:21:14PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> > In fact, you don't mean that it needs to run setuid.  It merely needs
> > to be run _as_ a particular uid.  There are several ways of achieving
> > this other than setuid.  Two that I can think of that I'd recommend to
> > you are:
> > 
> > * userv, which Wichert has already mentioned.
> 
> I must have missed that; do you have a URL?

He didn't bother with a URL, since it's a Debian package.

However, since my own interest was spurred, I looked it up..

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/

Jules

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