* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 15:08]:
> Even if the NSS situation changes, surely it's immediately obvious
> that a random library function should not tamper with the uid of a
> process as a side-effect? Unless the caller explicitly requested
> dropping of root privs, no library has *any* business in changing it.
I miss (not only here) the principle:
First, do no harm.
Which are totally failed by a library changing uids on it's own.
Andi
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