Very Computer

        setuid to one of about 3 different accounts ("Account X")
        do some work under that ID.
(*)     setuid back to the ID of the person that originally ran it.
        send some mail to Account X saying what was done.

The program needs to be able to change to one of the 3 or so different
accounts, so It's made setuid root. It doesn't actually want to do its
work under uid root, so it setuid's to whichever account it needs immediately.
[ It can't setuid to ANY account, only to one of the 3 or so ].

The problem is that when the program send the mail to X, I want it to come
addressed from the person that ran the program, not from X.

According to the manual, you can setuid() to the saved-uid from exec();
but I can't get the setuid back to the persons ID to work. (*)

        Can anyone shed some insight on my problem?

                                        thanks
                                                Greyham.
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        determine uid to do the stuf as
        fork
        in child
                set user id to that user id
                do your stuff
                exit
        wait for child to complet
        set user id to real user id
        mail the message
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