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userv - Security boundary tool

Userv allows one program to invoke another when only limited trust exists between them. It is a tool which can be used to avoid having to give other system services root privileges, and which allows users to more securely have programs provide services to others.

Userv can be useful as 'glue' for system administrators as well as application authors; there are a few userv-using utilities/examples in the associated userv-utils package.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/
Source tarballhttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/userv.tar.gz
Latest versionhttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/userv.tar.gz
Version 1.0.1 (stable) released on 2000-07-27
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User's guide available from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/spec.html/ch-notes.html
Support contacts

Announce List<userv-annouce@chiark.greenend.org.uk> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/userv-announce
Developer List<userv-discuss@chiak.greenend.org.uk> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/userv-discuss
Bug List<userv-bugreports@chiark.greenend.org.uk> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/userv-bugreports

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/software/userv/?cvsroot=www.gnu.org
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Build prerequisitesmd5sum, GNU m4, make, flex

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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