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6145 :: setting file owner and running process as another user

[2020-04-03T16:14:38+02:00]

craigmj (orginal) [2020-04-03T16:14:38+02:00] view original

Hi, I'm failing to find anything in the standard library that would allow me to set the owner:group of a file, or that would allow me to run a process as a different user. Is it there somewhere? Best, Craig

cblake (orginal) [2020-04-03T18:30:10+02:00] view original

You wan the posix module. It has chown, chmod, setuid, etc.

cblake (orginal) [2020-04-03T18:56:29+02:00] view original

Also, in terms of setuid, you may also find cligen/posixUt.dropPrivilegeTo useful in the cligen nimble package (also at https://github.com/c-blake/cligen) used for example by the nimble kslog package (also at https://github.com/c-blake/kslog).

craigmj (orginal) [2020-04-03T22:40:13+02:00] view original

Thank you!!!