On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:12 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. It does not matter unless the application must be able to run with /etc/passwd being absent. > Anything which owns files rather than just running as the given > username should have a fixed UID. Why? Simo. -- 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
