[JIRA] Commented: (SSPCPP-389) Add option to shibd to set uid and gid at startup

[Kaspar Brand (JIRA)]

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Kaspar Brand commented on SSPCPP-389:
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All I can add is that on a POSIX compliant system, getpwnam() and getgrnam() are absolutely standard (the threadsafe *_r variants are a different thing [they're optional], but non-reentrant versions should be fine for shibd's main(), I assume).

> Add option to shibd to set uid and gid at startup
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SSPCPP-389
>                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-389
>             Project: Shibboleth SP - C++
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Other
>            Reporter: Scott Cantor
>            Assignee: Scott Cantor
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.5
>
>         Attachments: shibd-runas.diff
>
>   Original Estimate: 1 day
>          Time Spent: 1 hour
>  Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes
>
> Getting the Macport to handle non-root startup will be much cleaner if we can set the user to run shibd with on the command line.

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