Re: [RFC][PATCH] loginuid through procfs (+ a question)
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:00, Steve Grubb wrote:
I see places in the kernel setting -1 for uid on init, though. For
example,
look at security/keys/keyctl.c
Ah, good point. And even the functions in kernel/sys.c for setting uids
use (uid_t)-1 as a magic value to indicate that no change is desired.
Hence, possibly (uid_t)-1 is safe to use for the unset loginuid.
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Stephen Smalley <sds(a)epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency