thread impersonation

[Gonzalo]

What i'm trying to achieve is a program like NFS. Users will connect to this
program and navigate the virtual filesystem. Each connection is a thread,
and I need to impersonate them for the user associated to each connection,
if I use setuid, all thread in the process would be impersonated. In Linux I
achieved that using "setfsid" but that doesn't exists here in FreeBSD

Thanks
Gonzalo

2011/9/17 Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org>

> On 9/17/11 11:51 AM, Gonzalo wrote:
>
>> So, as a imagined, is not possible a thread impersonation on FreeBSD?
>>
>> 2011/9/17 Tijl Coosemans<tijl at coosemans.org>
>>
> I'm not quite sure what you are trying to achieve, and why.
> each thread DOES have its own credentials but the kernel/unix spec defines
> them to all be the same user..
> It MIGHT be possible for a thread spawned before a seteuid() to keep some
> of the credentials of the prior  ID
> but I haven't looked.. Nor do I know how that would be used..  usually UID
> tests are made on the PROCESS
> credentials and not the thread credentials (which exist for other reasons).
>
>> 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<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-intro.html>
>>>
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