Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:35:40 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:

> PS: Imagine uid split into 24:8 bits, when X:0 is user than can do
> anything X:1-255 uid's can do. X:1 can not kill processes by "user"
> X:2. And now, every user gets X:0 initially, and can decide to run
> subprocesses under X:... uid's.

But your $HOME would be a nightmare then. You need also the
ability chown your files/directories and to create groups, assign
members to it (your "other" uids ;)) and possibly destroy them.

Did you solve this, too?

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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