Matthieu Moy wrote:
Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
I haven't been paying attention, but does that mean on that system,
a total stranger kseygold can write, modify, and remove whatever Ram
owns? I am hoping that is not the case.
I can see two reasons for having the same UID for two login names:
1) the sysadmin really messed up, and as you say, a total stranger has
complete ownership of your files. Ramkumar, you should check that this
is not your case.
2) the sysadmin explicitely gave two login names to the same physical
person, as kinds of aliases for the same UID (e.g. the person got
married, changed her name and login, but expects ~oldlogin to continue
working). I'm not sure how common this is, and to which extend we want
to support this in our test scripts.
On HP NonStop it is very common to have a user (form: "GROUP.USER", case
insensitiv) and one or more aliases to them (form: "user", case sensitiv)
the latter are very commonly used in the POSIX part of HP NonStop (call
OSS), the one git runs in, the other are more commonly used in the
proprietary part of the OS (called Guardian), althoug this is not a strict
requirement.
The only thing they share is the UID.
Bye, Jojo
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