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Re: Test failure: Test #3 in t1304-default-acl

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Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date
Sep 17, 2012, 17:59 UTC
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Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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
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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 17, 2012
  2. Matthieu MoySep 17, 2012
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 17, 2012
  4. Matthieu MoySep 17, 2012
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 17, 2012
  6. Matthieu MoySep 17, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  8. Matthieu MoySep 17, 2012
  9. Joachim SchmitzSep 17, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraOct 1, 2012
  12. Joachim SchmitzOct 1, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 1, 2012
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 18, 2012
  15. Andreas SchwabSep 17, 2012
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 17, 2012
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