[Tutor] uid

[Joerg Woelke]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:58:41AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:09:15PM +0200, Joerg Woelke wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:17:56PM +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote:
> > > I want to cp a file and extract it to different users. I can do this
> > > as root, but I want extract  to be done with the uid of the user.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > 
> > os.suid()
> 
> Did you *try* that? It doesn't exist on my system.

Aeh sorry - os.setuid() *duck*

> 
> 'suid' -- meaning 'set user id' -- is not at all what he wants.
> 
> He simply needs to set the owner of the file so
> 
> os.chown(user) 
> 
> will do what he wants.
> 

Then I misunderstood the marked sentence.

Greets J"o!


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