From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Cai Xianchao <caixianchao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 'LESS' <graphics@cn.fujitsu.com>, Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uids should not be allowed to set to negative
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:45:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808080945.59294.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489C1B77.5030508@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Friday 08 August 2008 06:09:59 Cai Xianchao wrote:
> When I tried to set uid to negative, no error message was outputed and
> the return value was 0. In the rule list, the value of uid was also
> negative. Negative uid does not exist and the negative user can't be
> added. So, I think uids can't be set to negative.
There really is uid -1 and uid -2. We run into this problem with faillog all
the time. I think they are nobody and nfsnobody respectively. They used by
NFS.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-08 10:09 [PATCH] Uids should not be allowed to set to negative Cai Xianchao
2008-08-08 13:25 ` Eric Paris
2008-08-08 13:53 ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-08 13:45 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2008-08-12 19:36 ` Steve Grubb
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