Hey, On 26.03.2014 11:55, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Sharing a user name between a system user and a normal user leads to surprising or even security relevant misbehavior as the daemon user may write to files in the real user's home or vice versa.
That one you have to explain to me. How is that possible if the UID is different? hans@rhett:~> id uid=13045(hans) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) hans@rhett:~> ls -lad /home/hans drwxr-xr-x 2 hans users 4096 Mar 26 13:25 /home/hans hans@rhett:~> ls -ladn /home/hans drwxr-xr-x 2 13044 100 4096 Mar 26 13:25 /home/hans hans@rhett:~> touch /home/hans/blah touch: cannot touch ‘/home/hans/blah’: Permission denied hans@rhett:~> Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org