From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 8:15:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEC914DAE for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@acl.lanl.gov) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA202928 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:16:23 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:16:23 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs In-Reply-To: <19990817213718.A28662@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the only portable user ids are names as strings. you can kludge and kludge but at some point the kludges will pile up too high, fall over, and hurt somebody. how many new options did we see proposed in the last 12 hours for this problem? ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message