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Re: dumb question
- To: zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: dumb question
- From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:27:58 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: drepper@cygnus.com, libc-hacker@cygnus.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
> The BSD implementation ignores what the sender passed in and supplies
> the receiver with the pid, the real and effective uid, the real and
> effective gid, and the first 15 entries in the supplementary groups
> list.
Well we actually wrote it first so blah 8)
The BSD implementation of group passing seems to be nice
> So: would the kernel people be willing to change SCM_CREDENTIALS to
> work the BSD way? I don't think the Linux way has any installed base
> of user code to speak of.
You need to ask Alexey <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. It looks good to me. Since
we have no standard and they have a better design IMHO I think we should
bite the bullet on this one for the good of unix security in general.
(Alexey if you think this is OK I'll do the changes)
Alan