On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 07:35:54PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > But dynamically allocating system users per-boot and ensuring that > > /etc and /var matches would still be interesting. > > Uh, yeah, there's still the question out there what to do with fully > dynamic throw-away UIDs, for example so that gdm could allocate a UID > for each seat when showing login prompts dynamically. This is going to > be really hard, since after dropping a UID again one needs a good way to > drop all files and other objects the user created before handing out the > same UID again, and I do not see how we could deal with that properly.
It smells similar to what Android is doing - separate UID per app. -- Tomasz Torcz Morality must always be based on practicality. xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl -- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel