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Re: The eternal uid issue
- From: "D. Boland" <daniel at boland dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:38:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: The eternal uid issue
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- References: <53CF6CEC dot 6D68E485 at boland dot nl> <53CF7012 dot 2070608 at tlinx dot org>
Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> D. Boland wrote:
> > But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue.
> >
> > * sendmail, procmail, mail.local assume that the id of the privileged user is '0'.
> >
> > Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also?
> >
> >
> I thought sendmail used capabilities?
>
> Isn't it about time none of them used a fixed 'uid', but used capabilities?
>
> I thought hard coding a Uid was going out with the dodo bird?
You didn't get the point. We create a kernel on which Linux software runs. We don't
dictate how software should be written.
Regards,
Daniel
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