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Re: how is lock owner determined?
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Aaron S. Hawley |
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Re: how is lock owner determined? |
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Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:30:15 -0400 (EDT) |
Looks like RCS doesn't respect EUID:
http://jspwiki.org/wiki/RCSFileProviderIssues
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Will Parsons wrote:
> I am running a daemon which executes RCS commands on behalf of remote
> clients (platform is FreeBSD). The daemon attempts to set its real and
> effective UID to that of the requesting client, and printing out the UID &
> EUID seems to verify that this is successful. Nevertheless, when a file is
> checked out, it gets locked as root rather the new UID. I thought that the
> lock should be owned by the real UID, is this not necessarily the case?
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> - Will
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