Revert "main: drop privileges right after reading the config"

This reverts commit 7a9abc2a04dd8ed1f113aa9c803af24adfb22773. It should
fix the issue in bug #87.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 2bd2cdb..064b440 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -393,14 +393,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
                 exit (EX_SOFTWARE);
         }
 
-        /* Switch to a different user if we're running as root */
-        if (geteuid () == 0) {
-                change_user (argv[0]);
-        } else {
-                log_message (LOG_WARNING,
-                             "Not running as root, so not changing UID/GID.");
-        }
-
         ret = setup_logging ();
         if (ret != 0) {
                 exit (EX_SOFTWARE);
@@ -446,6 +438,13 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
                 exit (EX_OSERR);
         }
 
+        /* Switch to a different user if we're running as root */
+        if (geteuid () == 0)
+                change_user (argv[0]);
+        else
+                log_message (LOG_WARNING,
+                             "Not running as root, so not changing UID/GID.");
+
         if (child_pool_create () < 0) {
                 fprintf (stderr,
                          "%s: Could not create the pool of children.\n",