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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:31:44 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: problems with changing UID/GID
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Hi,

On 26 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I personally like the task->cred->cr_uid, etc. approach. Helps a lot.
> 
> It changes the whole semantics of every security test in Linux, and
> breaks most of them totally. Our syscalls know the uid is constant
> during the call

I didn't say it's a must -- for now.

			Thunder
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