An issue with group based <policy> in dbus daemon

Markku Savela msa at moth.iki.fi
Mon Aug 4 02:41:06 PDT 2008


> From: <qrczak at knm.org.pl>
> As far as I understand it, Unix groups are not designed to change
> dynamically. They are normally set on login.

Yes, but I was planning to misuse them, running different applications
with different sets of groups (= access rights).

I see situations where user might want to use the same UID, but start
some applications with less groups than recorded for the user in
/etc/groups.


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