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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:35:24 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c
Message-ID:  <20040715173524.GG12007@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040715131957.67360D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20040715170320.GF12007@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040715131957.67360D-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:21:09PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
+> > Could we change 'td->td_ucred->cr_ruid !=3D 0 || jailed(td->td_ucred)'=
 to
+> > 'suser(td) !=3D 0'?
+>=20
+> No, because suser(td) checks the effective uid, not the real uid.  Which
+> is the reason I asked him to change it to that before committing, and why
+> Colin had to back out his commit also :-). Colin is preparing patches to
+> add a flag to suser_cred() to allow the caller to say they care about the
+> real uid.=20

Thanks for clarification, but why actually do we care so much here about
real uid?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
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