Function lowerPrivileges
Sets the effective user and group
ID to the ones configured for privilege lowering.
This function is useful for services run as root to give up on the privileges that they only need for initialization (such as listening on ports $(LT)= 1024 or opening system log files).
Prototype
void lowerPrivileges();
Authors
Sönke Ludwig
Copyright
© 2012-2013 RejectedSoftware e.K.
License
Subject to the terms of the MIT license, as written in the included LICENSE.txt file.