linux-kernel - Changing another process' UID

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Message-ID: <20091110092013.GA575@nibiru.local>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:20:13 +0100
From:	Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@...ux.de>
To:	linux kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Changing another process' UID

Hi folks,

for properly porting Plan9's factotum to Linux, I need some way
to change an running process's uid/gid.

Plan9 has special devices /dev/caphash and /dev/capuse for that.

Some time ago I chose to hack up a different, a bit more generic 
way: adding special new uid / gid files to the /proc entries,
so another (root) process can change the uid of an already
running process.

I suppose there's a better way via Linux's caps api, isnt it ?

thx
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