Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:31:50 -0300 | From | Fabio Olive Leite <> | Subject | Re: [autofs] [PATCH 3/4] autofs4 - track uid and gid of last mount requestor |
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:06:11PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > > Dumb old me, I really only need the uid. > The gid can come from the get user info functions of glibc.
In case the process was executed from a setgid executable, you might have a different gid from what the user has. In fact, I don't know why you may need more than the pid, since with the pid you can get to the task's effective uid/gid and maybe other such information you need.
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