[sudo-users] revert to SUDO_USER

[Walter Barnes]

Hello,

After a program is executed using sudo how would that program momentarily revert to SUDO_USER to perform some task?

I'm building a package manager for my LFS based system that must execute separate build, test and install scripts when building a binary package from source. Further, the package manager uses aufs to create a fake root for the install script so it must call mount several times then do a chroot.

My thinking then is that I design the program so that it must execute as root and use sudo to run it. The program can then check the SUDO_USER env var and execute only the build and test scripts as that user.

Any insight as to how I can accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Walter


       
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