Default path to identity file
Ben Lindstrom
mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Thu Aug 26 00:47:02 EST 2004
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Robert Dahlem wrote:
[..]
>
> Identity files are always expanded by tilde_expand_filename() which gets
> the name of the home directory from getpwuid(my_uid)->pw_dir.
>
> This is not what I expect (well, hope :-) when my UID is 0 but I'm not
> root.
>
It's in bad form to have more than one UID 0 account. Heck any duplicate
UID in general. A lot of software can't correctly identify which users
and thus it will assume the first one found in a linear search of the
password file.
- Ben
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