From: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Ulrich Mueller" <ulm@gentoo.org>,
"Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 12:04:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab358e4a-f653-f3e3-3fb2-237ef22191f3@uls.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w6g1rxwnj4f.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de>
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Hi Ulrich,
> >> I don't see any reason to prohibit having a user/group package for
>> root. > > Is creation of (additional) users with UID 0 a good idea
from a > security point of view? Maybe it is better to explicitly forbid
it? > I believe the current code already prevents re-use of an already
used UID value. So this concern, whilst valid, is already addressed I
believe.
Kind Regards,
Jaco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-08 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 19:04 [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users Jaco Kroon
2019-08-01 20:01 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-08-01 20:22 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-02 16:33 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-08-01 20:47 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-02 9:14 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-02 9:53 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-02 15:46 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-02 15:58 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-02 16:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-02 17:06 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-04 16:22 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-06 11:41 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-07 15:48 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-08 6:52 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-08 8:42 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-08-08 10:04 ` Jaco Kroon [this message]
2019-08-03 0:53 ` James Cloos
2019-08-17 20:38 ` Michał Górny
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