[RFC][PATCH] loginuid through procfs (+ a question)

[Stephen Smalley]

On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:00, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> This I was wondering about.  loginuid is a uid_t, which is
> kernel_uid32_t, which is an unsigned int.  So I have to ask
> again:  do we really want to use -1 as a default?

Would it make you happier to use ~0? ;)

David Woodhouse pointed out that no value in the uid space is reserved
for such use.  But it seems a bit of a stretch to use the kernel's key
management facilities for an immutable identity for audit purposes.

You could introduce a separate flag indicating whether the loginuid is
set at all, and export both the flag and the uid value, with the latter
simply being 0 if the flag indicates that the loginuid has not been set.
   
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Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency