Re: Could svn check permissions?

At 2:40 PM -0400 9/8/03, John Peacock wrote:
>
>Except if I call setuid() first, the process is no longer priveleged
>enough to call setgid(). :~( It may be that it is in practice
>impossible to use setgid() to change the current process to an
>alternate group. *nix security is not something I have spent a lot
>of time coding around.

You can still setgid() if the user ID is a member of the group, I
think. If you're trying to set yourself to a group of which you're
not a member, that would be a little weird anyway...

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