From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:29:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only lookup uid/gid when applying rules Message-Id: <20060805002915.GB5295@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: <200608011135.25769.uberlord@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200608011135.25769.uberlord@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Aug 05, Kay Sievers wrote: > Currently - with or without this patch - on a LDAP configuration that > does not return anything on bootup, we assign all OWNER/GROUP > permissions to "root". This can't be fixed later in the boot cycle, so > we have a serious problem anyway. The question is, if we really should > assign it to "root", or maybe fall-back to the built-in /etc/{passwd,grou= ps} > parser?=20 I believe that falling back to the local static database would be more confusing. And probably useless too, since on a properly configured system an user would be first looked up in /etc/passwd and only if not there LDAP would be used. Debian had similar problems, and after quickly reading his introduction I did not find anything questionable in Roy's patch. --=20 ciao, Marco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=3Djoin.php&p=3Dsourceforge&CID=DEVD= EV _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel