PFSYSEUID and RHEL 5
Dave
dave at thekilempire.com
Mon Jun 8 05:13:29 PDT 2009
We're in the process of migrating from SCO Openserver 6 to Red Hat
Enterprise 5. In this new environment a lot of our processing is
breaking. On SCO the SYSTEM command ran as the filepro user,
presumably because dreport is setuid filepro. Thus files created by
processes under the SYSTEM command were owned by the user filepro. On
Linux the behavior we're seeing is that files created by the SYSTEM
command are owned by the user logged into the machine.
We have a lot of processing that depends on the old behavior so it
would be a rather massive undertaking to rewrite all this code. The
documentation for the PFSYSEUID variable seems to indicate that it
will do exactly what we need. The problem though is that no matter
how I set it (PFSYSEUID=YES or PFSYSEUID=ON) I'm not seeing any
difference.
I'll toss out the disclaimer that I'm not a filepro programmer; I'm
the admin for our filepro server.
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