privilege Securely drop privileges from root to another user
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Securely drop privileges from root to another user privilege is a Python module designed to implement the privilege-dropping API described here:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/setuid-usenix02.pdfhttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/setuid-login08b.pdfThis topic is complex so you should read at least the second paper before trying to understand why I'm doing this.NOTE: This code does not (yet) attempt to work on Solaris and AIX. That is, you must have getresid and setresid to use it. Requirements: · Python

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