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Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
Subject: Re: thread impersonation
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On Monday, September 19, 2011 7:50:04 am Gonzalo wrote:
> What i'm trying to achieve is a program like NFS. Users will connect to this
> program and navigate the virtual filesystem. Each connection is a thread,
> and I need to impersonate them for the user associated to each connection,
> if I use setuid, all thread in the process would be impersonated. In Linux I
> achieved that using "setfsid" but that doesn't exists here in FreeBSD

Yes, per-thread credentials don't exist yet.  You can try asking 
zml@FreeBSD.org as he was planning to work on that, but I don't know if he has 
a patch available.  rwatson@ is another good person to ask about this.

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John Baldwin