From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Test failure: Test #3 in t1304-default-acl Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:07:29 -0700 Message-ID: <7vehlidvlq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v4nmwwqox.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vvcfctmka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthieu Moy , Git List To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 01 18:09:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TIiX6-0004N1-7s for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:07:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753136Ab2JAQHf (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:07:35 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:37952 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753107Ab2JAQHc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:07:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6801D9D1B; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:07:31 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=d1WAdBJjoN2se/chCXXb5jACC90=; b=E1zqnr ntbLaaGItDQ+uttEdj0MT674hnQj2a3a/22oflIU1XLWmnvA+jphVT1FjykbkzMq WMA0+2O1bJezdqL4KhhHaPkZDVBcqsE02h2fvu4AIN296STgJQ2TLoPLSf7JN+lZ 7PPJUu0ZjjitjT/sz4NpCUpTP3Eoalecrauo0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=WRRHfiggRKY6XwiAILoES/d4Q2ktX6Ub /ze2JfspA+qzC1bI0nxWNDbX43doVHN1Fwu19+85+zfsaOwm5slqkUuhM8el15Hf 2HAGH+eGH0Gu1EU0xqBOn3nbghOpA4etX3/44+/TymahT04cwlPW1Qx80BPE1T/p +cRguSj5GKM= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560CA9D1A; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BA6E99D17; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:07:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:08:21 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1A62890A-0BE2-11E2-A277-BB652E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > Hi Junio, > > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Matthieu Moy writes: >> >>> Junio C Hamano writes: >>> >>>> I haven't been paying attention, but does that mean on that system, >>>> a total stranger kseygold can write, modify, and remove whatever Ram >>>> owns? I am hoping that is not the case. >>> >>> I can see two reasons for having the same UID for two login names: >>> >>> 1) the sysadmin really messed up, and as you say, a total stranger has >>> complete ownership of your files. Ramkumar, you should check that this >>> is not your case. >>> >>> 2) the sysadmin explicitely gave two login names to the same physical >>> person, as kinds of aliases for the same UID (e.g. the person got >>> married, changed her name and login, but expects ~oldlogin to continue >>> working). I'm not sure how common this is, and to which extend we want >>> to support this in our test scripts. >> >> I've only been assuming (1), but (2) feels like a legitimate (if >> confusing) way to configure your system. >> >> It is a separate issue if it is worth bending backwards to support >> it in the test, though. > > For what it's worth, `sudo` is "broken" on my system. Not very surprised ;-)