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It would probably need kernel support for this to happen, but I'd like to see a daemon in the system that runs authentication logic and then arbitrarily curses
by xena 4y ago
It would probably need kernel support for this to happen, but I'd like to see a daemon in the system that runs authentication logic and then arbitrarily curses the requesting process with the UID/GID/whatever it needs to get the job done.
- stevekemp 4y agoHow would that work with, for example a single deamon supporting multiple (different) remote users - for example ftpd, or sshd? (I imagine you could say that sshd forks for each user, but some of the legacy systems like ftpd/ircd wouldn't have that as an option..)