Fedora User Management (revisited)

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Sat Mar 10 03:27:12 UTC 2007


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.




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