Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:13:12 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: High UID support for Linux |
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27-Nov-98 15:38 you wrote: > pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) writes:
|>> H. Peter Anvin writes ("Re: High UID support for Linux"): |>> > Followup to: <E0zioU5-0000tA-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> |>> > By author: pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) |>> > [snip - hack to get getpwuid(getuid()) to work. |>> > |>> > I don't think this is beneficial. Any uid/gid-aware program is going |>> > to have to deal. There just isn't a way around it. Fortunately not |>> > too many programs really care about uid/gid's. |>> |>> I strongly disagree. _Lots_ of programs care about _your_ home |>> directory so they can look for configuration files and don't use uids |>> for anything else.
> They will just use getenv("HOME"). No need for uid.
Great but what to do with already written programs ?
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