Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:00:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: bin/10019: Bug in keyinfo and keyinit] Message-ID: <199902121200.EAA11581@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/10019; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To: Anto Prijosoesilo <antop@netscape.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [Re: bin/10019: Bug in keyinfo and keyinit]
Date: 12 Feb 1999 12:54:27 +0100
Anto Prijosoesilo <antop@netscape.net> writes:
> des@flood.ping.uio.no wrote:
> > You're not supposed to have multiple login names per UID. What do you
> > expect to achieve by doing that, anyway?
> FreeBSD is setup with one. uid("root") == uid("toor").
"toor" is never used. It's meant to be "root with a different shell",
but why people can't just type "exec /bin/sh" on the command line is
beyond me.
> In any case, I figured that since s/key is name based, not uid based, the
> checks done by keyinfo/keyinit are supposed to follow that.
Well, that's the least of your problems. Nearly every binary that does
anything with file permissions etc. will in the best case get confused
and in the worst case fail.
DES
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