filepro and file permissions

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dan Coutu (Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:53:48 -0400):
[...]
> Am I right in thinking that filePro explicitly sets the uid of any child
> process it creates to be the uid of the process that invoked filePro?
> (Rather than letting the child process use the 'filepro' uid?)

No.  By default, filePro simply executes the command and the O/S will
do whatever it does regarding UIDs.  Normally, this means that the
child process will run with an euid of "filepro", just as the filePro
executable is running with that euid.  If your system supports it (and
most ["all"?] current O/Ses that filePro runs on do), then you can set
PFSYSEUID=OFF to have filePro revoke its euid=filepro setting for the
duration of the system command, and run it with the original uid.

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