From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joachim Schmitz" Subject: Re: Test failure: Test #3 in t1304-default-acl Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:59:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7v4nmwwqox.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 17 20:00:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TDfcO-0004fq-Bf for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:00:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757115Ab2IQSAO (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:00:14 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60499 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757108Ab2IQSAM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:00:12 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TDfcE-0004cX-JW for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:00:14 +0200 Received: from dsdf-4db53772.pool.mediaways.net ([77.181.55.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:00:14 +0200 Received: from jojo by dsdf-4db53772.pool.mediaways.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:00:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsdf-4db53772.pool.mediaways.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> I haven't been paying attention, but does that mean on that system, >> a total stranger kseygold can write, modify, and remove whatever Ram >> owns? I am hoping that is not the case. > > I can see two reasons for having the same UID for two login names: > > 1) the sysadmin really messed up, and as you say, a total stranger has > complete ownership of your files. Ramkumar, you should check that this > is not your case. > > 2) the sysadmin explicitely gave two login names to the same physical > person, as kinds of aliases for the same UID (e.g. the person got > married, changed her name and login, but expects ~oldlogin to continue > working). I'm not sure how common this is, and to which extend we want > to support this in our test scripts. On HP NonStop it is very common to have a user (form: "GROUP.USER", case insensitiv) and one or more aliases to them (form: "user", case sensitiv) the latter are very commonly used in the POSIX part of HP NonStop (call OSS), the one git runs in, the other are more commonly used in the proprietary part of the OS (called Guardian), althoug this is not a strict requirement. The only thing they share is the UID. Bye, Jojo