On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:40:38AM -0200, Mario Viana wrote:
At my point of view I agree with Emmerich, if the kernel doens?t care about it, Why the 'userland' programs don?t do the same? I?m going to check the useradd source code right now. Thank you.
Two things - one, the kernel doesn't have a concept of user names. The kernel uses numeric uids; login names are user land only. Second, this is getting quite off-topic for suse-security, as it's not really security related anymore. Would you please take this discussion to a more appropriate forum? Thank you, Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | Anyone who has had to work with X.509 has probably okir@suse.de | experienced what can best be described as ---------------+ ISO water torture. -- Peter Gutmann