Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:48:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: 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: <199906221748.NAA12961@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906221720.KAA33927@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199906221720.KAA33927@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:20:04 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said: > So do you think it's worth the effort required to support multiple > usernames on the same UID? This is sort-of supported now. But you have to think hard about it, because su(1) does not affect the session's login name -- so it may not be worth devoting much attention to. (And it's easy to get it wrong -- witness my changes to lpr(1).) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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