From 60f119d64a855895fc1309e3756568727293faef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Rodger Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:54:03 +0000 Subject: Don't assume that root's grpid is '0' -- on solaris it can be different. --- archivemail.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'archivemail.py') diff --git a/archivemail.py b/archivemail.py index 3ec7d04..e8f3aab 100755 --- a/archivemail.py +++ b/archivemail.py @@ -1007,7 +1007,10 @@ def archive(mailbox_name): # check to see if we are running as root -- if so, change our effective # userid and groupid to that of the original mailbox + + former_gid = None # groupid doesn't have to be '0' for root on solaris 8? if (os.getuid() == 0) and os.path.exists(mailbox_name): + former_gid = os.getgid(); # remember this so we can change back mailbox_user = os.stat(mailbox_name)[stat.ST_UID] mailbox_group = os.stat(mailbox_name)[stat.ST_GID] vprint("changing effective group id to: %d" % mailbox_group) @@ -1054,7 +1057,7 @@ def archive(mailbox_name): # if we are running as root, revert the seteuid()/setegid() above if (os.getuid() == 0): vprint("changing effective groupid and userid back to root") - os.setegid(0) + os.setegid(former_gid) os.seteuid(0) -- cgit v1.2.3