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* On systems that have the setresuid() and setresgid() system calls to

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set the real uid and gid to the effective uid and gid, the Nix
  binaries can be installed as owned by the Nix user and group instead
  of root, so no root involvement of any kind is necessary.

  Linux and FreeBSD have these functions.
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Eelco Dolstra 2004-08-20 15:22:33 +00:00
parent 2d35116c13
commit e77fbe0fa2
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@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ if test "$setuid_hack" = "yes"; then
AC_DEFINE(SETUID_HACK, 1, [whether to install Nix setuid])
fi
AC_CHECK_FUNC(setresuid, [HAVE_SETRESUID=1], [HAVE_SETRESUID=])
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SETRESUID, test "$HAVE_SETRESUID" = "1")
if test "$HAVE_SETRESUID" = "1"; then
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SETRESUID, 1, [whether we have setresuid()])
fi
AC_ARG_WITH(nix-user, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-nix-user=USER],
[user for Nix setuid binaries]),
NIX_USER=$withval, NIX_USER=nix)