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Date:      Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:51:47 -0300
From:      Gonzalo <gonzalo.a.r@gmail.com>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thread impersonation
Message-ID:  <CA%2B02-EEOXcuNwjFMMS-6_Z0MB3kG2SAg5SOFq2KUx1wG0Tn75w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201109171520.09423.tijl@coosemans.org>
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So, as a imagined, is not possible a thread impersonation on FreeBSD?

2011/9/17 Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>

> On Monday 12 September 2011 21:31:03 Gonzalo wrote:
> > I'm new in freeBSD and I'm looking a way to impersonate threads in
> FreeBSD.
> > In Linux I did that with setfsuid, but that only work in linux and is not
> > portable :(
>
> There's seteuid(2) or setuid(2) which are portable. They change the uid of
> the entire process though, not per thread.
>
> > I saw that in FreeBSD there is Jails, that could work? Is possible to
> create
> > a Jail for every new thread and "impersonate the Jail"? Maybe I'm saying
> > things without sense :(
>
> A jail is a form of virtualisation. It's not related to what you're trying
> to do. You can read more about jails in the handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-intro.html
>



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