Reiner Hutsch writes:
> i have a background process on our HP3000 running, which serves as a
> listener on a sockets connection.
> PC processes connect to the listener process which in turn forks() for
> each PC user to perform DB queries and updates for the user. The
> listener process runs as MANAGER.SYS.
> My problem is that i would like to have the forked process run with the
> user-id / account of the connecting user.
> Is it possible to let the program change the user-id from MANAGER.SYS to
> <user.acct>?

After the fork() you can do this to change the userid:

        GETPRIVMODE();
        setuid(new_uid);
        GETUSERMODE();

You should only do this after careful validation of the new_uid to make sure
the PC isn't trying to gain access to unauthorized users.
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