Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)"):
> Again, I believe the behavior is not a bug because the behavior of
> getpwuid() when two users share the same uid is undefined.
Where is the format of /etc/passwd standardised, so that we can see
what that says about the meaning of entries with identical uids ?
The last time you claimed that this behaviour was undefined I pointed
out that it wasn't and you seemed not to disagree in your followup but
here you are repeating the assertion again !
> This behavior is related to other nscd issues in the past that /were/ bugs
It seems to me that nscd is buggy in that it fails to preserve the
long-established de-facto standard behaviour for getpwuid.
But as you say it is not surprising to find a bug in nscd.
The OP should deinstall it!
Ian.
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