Re: Proposal "LUID"

From: Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Date: Sun Apr 16 2000 - 18:05:04 EST


Linda Walsh writes the following:
> The events can be tracked via forks/execs. When I su to another user
>withing my current 'session', then spawn an xterminal, All I would see in the log
>is that user "new" now has started a session. I'll see no idea that it was
>really user "old".

It really isn't user "old". su changes what user YOU REALLY ARE. That's what
su MEANS. Substitute User. If you don't like it you can rm /bin/su. You don't
need to bloat everybody's task_struct with this luid sillyness.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 23 2000 - 21:00:09 EST