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Re: Multiple users in fetchmail


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:36:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:28:48AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Grep-ing the fetchmail code, I get the following:
> > 
> >     $ grep 'set.*uid' *.c
> >     sink.c:    seteuid(ctl->uid);
> >     sink.c:    seteuid(0);
> > 
> > So, I presume that I will have to change the second hit above to:
> > 
> >     seteuid(18);
> 
> Better:
> 
>       uid_t orig_uid = getuid ();
>       setuid (ctl->uid);
> 
>       [...]
> 
>       seteuid (orig_uid);

Thanks for the above suggestion -- it will be part of the final
solution.

Unfortunately, I also have to teach fetchmail that a UID of 18 is
equivalent to 0 (i.e., root) under Cygwin.  Without this "ctl->uid"
above is always 18 and *not* the user's real UID.  It will take me some
time to track this down...  And I hope that the fetchmail maintainer
will accept such a patch...

Jason

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