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Re: Linux UID/GID 'Feature'

From: regnauld () DEEPO PROSA DK (Philippe Regnauld)
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:00:21 +0200


David Phillips writes:

But then we tried to su to that user and were rewarded by being dumped
to UID 0.  It didn't recognize the UID so it defaulted to 0.  Cool huh?


        Same behavior on FreeBSD (2.2).

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