Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] when uid/gid == 0
From: Richard Knuckey (richardk@iprolink.co.nz)
Date: Sun Sep 06 1998 - 17:54:22 EDT
At 6:10 am +1200 5/9/98, a sun wrote:
>hi all,
>
>i see a number of different solutions to the uid/gid issue. one is
>sort of hackish but wouldn't require any intervention while the others
>would require more administrative work. i was wondering what people's
>thoughts on this might be.
>
>the problem:
> uid/gid == 0 need to be interpreted as "ignore uid/gid
> permissions, respectively"
>
> on unix machines, however, 0 really means root. as a result, we
> can't use that to signify anything.
>
Why not treat permission 777 as ignore uid/gid? (or at least xx7 )
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