On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:20:57AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > > > I suppose if the FreeBSD world feels that "root" and "toor" must both > > exist in the password database, then "nfsuserd" could be hacked to handle > > the case of translating uid 0 to "root" without calling getpwuid(). It > > seems ugly, but if deleting "toor" from the password database upsets > > people, I can do that. > > I agree with Ian on this. I don't use toor either, but have seen people use > it, and sometimes it will get recommended here for various reasons e.g. > running a root account with a different default shell. It wouldn't bother > me having to do this provided it was documented, but having to do so would > be a POLA violation to many users I think.
To be fair, I'm not sure this is even a problem. Rick M. only suggested it as a possibility. I would think that getpwuid() would return the first match which has always been root. At least that's what it does when scanning the passwd file; I'm not sure about NIS. If someone can prove that this will cause a problem with NFSv4, we could consider hackingit. Otherwise I don't think we should change this behavior yet. -- Rick C. Petty _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
