From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 31 00:21:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA11442 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 00:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA11430 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 00:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA18606 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 31 May 1997 09:21:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10860; Sat, 31 May 1997 09:07:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970531090733.HH04622@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:07:33 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's References: <19970531020825.GN62992@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705310116.SAA23468@seagull.rtd.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705310116.SAA23468@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 30, 1997 18:16:45 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Don Yuniskis wrote: > > But that doesn't require distinct UIDs. > > How? Since *any* UUCP account can masquerade as another "system" > and ... UUCP account !~= UUCP UID Where !~= translates into ``not necessarily equal''. You can track of the different accounts even if they have the same UID. As i wrote earlier, the only thing that is recording by UID is the process accounting system. Things like utmp/wtmp work by login name, and i think Taylor's possibility to limit a particular system name to a distinct account, too (though i've never been using this). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)