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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option


From: Ian Jackson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:52:22 +0100

Daniel P. Berrange writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new 
-runasid option"):
> Just use  getpwuid() to get the "struct passwd *", then change_process_uid()
> doesn't need any changes at all AFAICT.

See my comments in the commit message.  There may be multiple passwd
entries referring to a particular uid.  I think in this area it would
be better to expect the caller to be explicit, rather than taking
getpwuid's notion of the first one.

Ian.



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