On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:12:30 -0500
Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at Sun.COM> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:53:48PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > I don't understand the point of this.  Why is this kind of emulation 
> > helpful?  Is this just to create honeypot?  Or am I missing something.
> 
> No.  Remember when ON had to be built as UID 0?  It's for that sort of
> purpose.

... something that I'm working hard to fully remove. Requiring a
build as uid 0 has long since past its use-by date.


James C. McPherson
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