Information about the package, uid_wrapper, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The uid_wrapper package is designed for, A wrapper for privilege separation.
Package Name:
uid_wrapper
Summary:
A wrapper for privilege separation
URL:
Description:
Some projects like a file server need privilege separation to be able to switch to the connection user and do file operations. uid_wrapper convincingly lies to the application letting it believe it is operating as root and even switching between UIDs and GIDs as needed. To use it set the following environment variables: LD_PRELOAD=libuid_wrapper.so UID_WRAPPER=1 This package doesn't have a devel package cause this project is for development/testing.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
29 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the uid_wrapper package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install uid_wrapper
This command will install uid_wrapper on the server.
yum remove uid_wrapper
This command will un-install uid_wrapper on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove uid_wrapper, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove uid_wrapper
This command will un-install uid_wrapper on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove uid_wrapper when using the -y flag.
yum update uid_wrapper
This command will update uid_wrapper to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove uid_wrapper, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update uid_wrapper
This command will update uid_wrapper to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove uid_wrapper when using the -y flag.
yum info uid_wrapper
This command will show you core information about the uid_wrapper package.
yum deplist uid_wrapper
This command will show you the dependencies for uid_wrapper. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update uid_wrapper
This command will check if there is an update waiting on uid_wrapper. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.