[Pkg-shadow-devel] UID == (uid_t)-1

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:29:28 Peter Vrabec wrote:
> what do you think about this patch? I'm afraid uid = -1 should not be
> allowed. It's a problem for chown at least.

to be clear, we're talking about the behavior the POSIX set of chown() 
functions require, not so much the chown binary ... although the former 
implies the same behavior in the latter ...

having shadow reject attempts to utilize uid of -1 sounds sane to me
-mike
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