daemon

Documentation

Overview

Psckage daemon has a few handy utility functions for server software.

Drop privileges.

Index

• Variables
• func BreakChannel() chan bool
• func DegradeToUser(uname string) error

Variables

var ErrorNotRoot = errors.New("not running as root, so can't drop privileges to specified user")

ErrorNotRoot is returned when the user doesn't have root privileges.

Functions

func BreakChannel

func BreakChannel() chan bool

BreakChannel generates a goroutine which waits for ctrl-C to be pressed, and returns a channel to wait on. Using it can be as simple as:

<-daemon.BreakChannel()

func DegradeToUser

func DegradeToUser(uname string) error

DegradeToUser drops down to a specific user and its primary group if run by root.