Re: how is lock owner determined?

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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