Re: UID Registry
Bart Whiteley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lsb.discuss |
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| Organization | Novell, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:27 am, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:15:51AM -0600, Bart Whiteley wrote: > > For example: Currently among the major distributions you can > > find users "apache", "httpd", "www", or "wwwrun". All of > > them have different UIDs. This makes it a challenge to > > develop applications intended to run on multiple distributions. > > Why? There are system interfaces for mapping the username to the uid, > there is no reason to hard-coded. But the names themselves aren't even the same. > > Cheers, > > Matt > [email protected] > -- > Matt Wilson > Manager, Base Operating Systems > Red Hat, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > lsb-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss -- Bart Whiteley <[email protected]> Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com/