Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/16] os-posix: Provide new -runas <uid>:<gid> facility

[Markus Armbruster]

Ian Jackson <address@hidden> writes:

> This allows the caller to specify a uid and gid to use, even if there
> is no corresponding password entry.  This will be useful in certain
> Xen configurations.
>
> We don't support just -runas <uid> because: (i) deprivileging without
> calling setgroups would be ineffective (ii) given only a uid we don't
> know what gid we ought to use (since uids may eppear in multiple
> passwd file entries with different gids).
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <address@hidden>
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> CC: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> CC: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> CC: Michael Tokarev <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>