Re: Proposal "LUID"

Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:26:58 -0500 (EST)


>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:43:16PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>
>> The security level formerly known as C2 requires the system to keep a
>> "login UID"; this ID never changes, regardless of real or effective UID
>> changes, and is used to record the actual user who performed some
>> audited action. System daemons run with LUID 0, which is the only LUID
>> permitted to change its LUID; if a process has a nonzero LUID, it can
>> not change its LUID for any reason.

So if named takes a dive, I login remotely and su to root and restart it,
it's not a "system daemon" anymore? Strikes me as a useless distinction at
best.

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