when the server drops privileges, it looks for uid/gid to drop to via the SUDO_UID and SUDO_GID environment variables, which are automatically set whenever a process is run via sudo. the server doesn't check if these env variables don't exist, and crashes. need to detect this and decide how to proceed. either abort priv dropping and continue running server as root, or add flags to specify who to drop to? i'll probably go with the former, to keep things simple
offlinemark
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9 years ago
when the server drops privileges, it looks for uid/gid to drop to via the
SUDO_UIDandSUDO_GIDenvironment variables, which are automatically set whenever a process is run via sudo. the server doesn't check if these env variables don't exist, and crashes. need to detect this and decide how to proceed. either abort priv dropping and continue running server as root, or add flags to specify who to drop to? i'll probably go with the former, to keep things simple