On Monday, 01/19/2009 at 05:06 EST, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: > I have heard that suggestion before, and it appears to come from those > who never tried it. I recall that several things get messy when you > don't maintain a 1-to-1 mapping of names and uid 0. IIRC the reverse > mapping goes through the nscd cache and the result will change color > depending on who is looking. The most scary one is seeing yourself as > the owner of the file although you never created it. It also breaks > stuff that tests for root, and &deity knows what.
:-) I agree that it is messy. That's the "reducation" (I meant "reduction") I was talking about.... things that map uids to usernames. They get confused. Anything that tests for a username of 'root' is broken already! Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
