[Linux-ha-dev] Re: [Linux-ha-cvs] Linux-HA CVS: heartbeat by alan from 24.221.212.80

[Alan Robertson]

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2004-09-10T01:12:23,
>    linux-ha-cvs at lists.community.tummy.com said:

> 
> This doesn't introduce a new bug, but if we have this check, we probably
> should verify that the whole string is all digits. Yes, there are
> broken setups out there which have usernames in the form of '5dd', we
> should at least cl_log(LOG_WARN,...) about that and proceed to call
> getpwnam.

Login names may not begin with digits.  This is a UNIX convention, perhaps 
even a standard.  I'm not going to go out of my way to help someone do the 
wrong thing.

Otherwise you could have *real* ambiguity with serious consequences

What about a login name of "0" whose real user id is 500, but some code 
mistakes for root - because there is inherent ambiguity when allow this.

Give me a break ;-)


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     Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>

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