On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > Why do we need fixed uids at all? is it so difficult to use > getpwnam() ?? Because the name isn't stored on the filesystem; just the number. Anything which owns files rather than just running as the given username should have a fixed UID. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
