Proc::UID

A Perl module for securely dropping and altering system privileges, including saved UIDs that are not natively handled by Perl itself. The SF source repository is out of date. See http://github.com/pfenwick/proc-uid/tree/master for the real one.

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Artistic License, GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers

User Interface

Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

C, Perl

Related Categories

Perl System Software, C System Software

Registered

2004-05-01

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