Fedora User Management (revisited)
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Mar 10 03:12:42 UTC 2007
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.
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