Re: [Qemu-devel] Setting new user:group with -daemonize?

[Anthony Liguori]

David Barrett wrote:
> Is there any way to make the qemu process change users after daemonizing?
>
> Basically, I want to start it as root so I can have it "-redir" with a 
> low port (80), and then change to a non-root user after daemonizing.  
> Is there any way to do this currently?
>
> Thankfully it opens the -redir port before forking, so it looks like a 
> straightforward change to vc.c: basically adding a call to "setuid()" 
> and "setgid()" after the call to "chdir()" on line 8711.
>
> I'd update the -daemonize syntax as follows:
>
>     -daemonize [user[:group]]
>
> Is there any interest in such a patch?

If you introduced two new options to specify the user and the group.  
Also, I would be interested in a chroot option too :-)

> -david
>
> PS: Why does it fork twice?

It makes sure QEMU is an orphan process (it's parent is pid 1).  It's a 
pretty typical thing to do when daemonizing.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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