setuid in gdomap - bug or feature?

[Chris B. Vetter]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I'm running in all kinds
of trouble with gdomap's setuid(3) call in main().

Instead of

  if (getuid () != 0)
    { 
      setuid (getuid ());
    }
  else
    { 
      setuid (-1);
    }

which (on my box) keeps gdomap running with UID 4294967295, a call to
getpwnam(3) similar to

        struct passwd *pw = getpwnam("nobody");
        setuid(pw->pw_uid);

would probably be a much "cleaner" approach.

Just a thought ...

-- 
Chris