bug in yppasswd
Eric C. Pearce
pearce at tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu
Tue Dec 13 23:57:32 AEST 1988
Having just rewritten passwd (the non-YP version), yppasswd most likely
uses unames instead of uids to allow users to share uid's.
It seems to me uid sharing that this is not a good idea and can see only
one application for it. Say a group of users working a the same project
would like to "pool" their disk quotas for the project. Shared uids allow
this (I think). One does have to wonder which user name ls will print and
the quota system will user for the "group".
- Ecp
Eric C. Pearce, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago.
pearce at tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu
pearce%tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu at oddjob.uchicago.edu
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