On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:36:52PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes ("Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started
> to impersonate uid=0 (root)"):
> > Sure, there may have been a behavior change in libc6. But the output of
> > getpwuid(0) is *undefined* when you have more than one record in /etc/passwd
> > with uid 0, so it's not a bug for this behavior to have changed.
> It's not clear that that behaviour is `*undefined*' as you say. That
> is, I can't find anything resembling a specification of the format of
> /etc/passwd. The closest is passwd(5) but that's obviously much much
> later than the de facto standard was established.
> All other systems have had first match processing for /etc/passwd
> since the dawn of time, and we should do too.
In practice, this is the behavior I see when testing with the glibc in
unstable.
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