running as root and changing to user nobody programmatically
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running as root and changing to user nobody programmatically
Hey all.
I'm writing a program that requires being run as root (for interfacing with network card) but during runtime it no longer requires it.
I'd like to setuid and setgid to the nobody user/group but don't know how to programmatically determine the UID/GID of the corresponding nobody user/group. I'm trying to avoid having the user enter the UID/GID as an additional parameter or adding it to a conf file (as it would be the only thing in the conf file).
Is there a way to determine a uid/gid for nobody without asking the user for it?
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