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 Message-ID: <19970531090733.HH04622@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705310116.SAA23468@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 30, 1997 18:16:45 -0700 References: <19970531020825.GN62992@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705310116.SAA23468@seagull.rtd.com>
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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. ;-)
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