[Python-Dev] Pondering some changes to python.c... (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 13:38:05 +0200

Sean wrote:

The other thing I've been thinking of is a SUID python. I recently needed to make some code which ran SUID (so it could write files into a mail queue with the right ownership, no matter if it was coming in from the network or a local user). I ended up making my own copy of python.c which did the appropriate thing. However, it would seem like something that there should probably be an "official" one...

see /Misc/setuid-prog.c