On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Frank Lahm <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/8/17 James Relph <[email protected]>: [...] >> >> Thanks very much for that confirmation, really doesn't seem obvious in a lot >> of the documentation! I don't have a system handy to test today (will do >> over the weekend) but I'll try and get a better idea of how that works over >> the weekend (in particular after a reboot, what UID/GID will a file/folder >> show (ie. with ls) until the same user logs in again and the new ephemeral >> mapping is created?). > > ephemeral ids break setuid/seteuid because they are not static on a > _running_ system. They may change anytime. Thus any POSIX compliant > application relying on these functions for privileges can not use > them.
Really? Where is your evidence? I don't think I've ever seen one change except after a reboot. -- Gordon Ross <[email protected]> Nexenta Systems, Inc. www.nexenta.com Enterprise class storage for everyone _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
