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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uids should not be allowed to set to negative
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:53:40 -0400
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On Friday 08 August 2008 09:25:09 Eric Paris wrote:
> > It is also strange that gid can't be set to negative, while uid can.
>
> Its not the same code that matches uid and auid is it? =C2=A0auid can
> reasonably be negative for anything that wasn't done from a login shell=
.
> just want to make sure you don't lose that ability.

That's true. But unfortunately, we have to give the uid as the unsigned v=
alue=20
or we lose a bit in the conversion and it doesn't match. On second though=
t,=20
maybe we can't do negative uids from user space because of that conversio=
n to=20
unsigned inside the rule matching engine.

-Steve