RE: [Serusers] Re: serweb issu

That's exactly what I'm asking on the other mail. Since the introduction of daemonize() function, the fifo file is always own by root even I instruct SER to run as say 'ser'. The problem lies on the do_suid() sequence in the main.c file. To me, if we change uid and/or group id to a less privileged user, the fifo file should be created under the new user's permission as well. Here is what I've changed to suit my environment. See the sequence of the ------> line. ---- Before ---- /* intialize fifo server -- we need to open the fifo before * do_suid() and start the fifo server after all the socket * are initialized, to inherit them*/ if (init_fifo_server()<0) { LOG(L_ERR, "initializing fifo server failed\n"); goto error; } /* Initialize Unix domain socket server */ if (init_unixsock_socket()<0) { LOG(L_ERR, "Error while creating unix domain sockets\n"); goto error; } --------> if (do_suid()==-1) goto error; /* try to drop priviledges */ /* process_no now initialized to zero -- increase from now on as new processes are forked (while skipping 0 reserved for main */ ---- After ---- --------> if (do_suid()==-1) goto error; /* try to drop priviledges */ /* intialize fifo server -- we need to open the fifo before * do_suid() and start the fifo server after all the socket * are initialized, to inherit them*/ if (init_fifo_server()<0) { LOG(L_ERR, "initializing fifo server failed\n"); goto error; } /* Initialize Unix domain socket server */ if (init_unixsock_socket()<0) { LOG(L_ERR, "Error while creating unix domain sockets\n"); goto error; } ---- Sorry, I do not know how to do that 'cvs diff' kind of thing. So, the cum's bit above. Not sure whether the CVS source will be changed either. There must be a reason the author do it that way. In my opinion, no offence, it's a bug but I'm open to discussion. Zeus