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From: Antonio Nati <A.Nati@cisco.it>
Subject: Apache and effective user id
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Probably I'm missing something about Apache or about uid and euid.

I'm running apache, with user = nobody (= 65536).

When I run a CGI program I have the following situation:

after start:
        getuid = 65536
        geteuid = 0

after setuid(0) and seteuid(0):
        getuid = 0
        geteuid = 0

Is that correct? Should instead Apache start my program with euid = 65536?

Isn't euid the effective user id during the run of a program (the one I may
modify with chmod 4xxx), that's to say the one that gives me the real access
privileges?

Tonino