Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:40:59 -0700 (PDT) From: <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> To: antop@netscape.net, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/10019: Keyinfo and keyinit may use the wrong name if the uid is shared by multiple logins Message-ID: <199906221040.DAA27870@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: Keyinfo and keyinit may use the wrong name if the uid is shared by multiple logins
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: sheldonh
State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 22 03:38:38 PDT 1999
State-Changed-Why:
"Especially when there's an easy fix to make them consistent" -- it may
be easy, but see the perlfunc(1) manpage's description of getlogin():
Do not consider getlogin() for authentication: it
is not as secure as getpwuid().
If you want to work on getting the S/Key db to use UID's, give it a bash.
:-)
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