Re: problems with changing UID/GID

From: Thunder from the hill (thunder@lightweight.ods.org)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 12:31:44 EST

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Hi,

On 26 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I personally like the task->cred->cr_uid, etc. approach. Helps a lot.
>
> It changes the whole semantics of every security test in Linux, and
> breaks most of them totally. Our syscalls know the uid is constant
> during the call

I didn't say it's a must -- for now.

Thunder

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