Re: Proposal "LUID"

From: Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 18:16:59 EST


On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:43:16PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:

> How do people feel about the following proposal:
>
> Adding support for login user id (auditable user id).
>
> 1) adding a variable "luid" to the uid_t line in the task struct
> 2) adding two system calls - 1 to 'set' and one to 'get' the value.
> 3) adding CAP_SET_LUID that allows setting setting the luid.

Hmmm, I don't think I've understood this; how does this differ from the
real userid?

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