System command on FreeBSD...

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Dec 29 12:08:38 PST 2004


Bill Campbell wrote:
[...]
> FilePro may be running external commands as the filepro user or as the
> original user depending on how they handle the internal fork, exec logic.
[...]

Normally, filePro runs any system commands as uid=$ORIGINAL_UID and
euid=filepro.  If PFSYSEUID=OFF, then filePro will give up its euid
for the duration of the system command.

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