getpwuid vs. getpwnam

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:53:11AM -0500, John Cecere wrote:
> An example of this would be Hylafax. It installs a fax user with the 
> same uid as uucp, but with a separate home directory.

That's a setup error.  The whole point of a fax user is "have something
with different *privileges* from other users on the system".


On the original topic, I wonder why ssh isn't just using $HOME?  The
whole getpwnam()/getpwuid() approach sounds overly complicated to me
(and I can't see any security issue if all file accesses are done
with proper user permissions, which I assume to be the case).

gert
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