| 1 |
On 02/04/2017 03:50 AM, Christopher Head wrote: |
| 2 |
>> |
| 3 |
>> Not a bad idea... we chould ship that safe-chown utility, and then |
| 4 |
>> tell users how to use it to fix their UIDs. The draft that I wrote up |
| 5 |
>> was for the "fixed UID with random fallback" model, but said utility |
| 6 |
>> could still be useful for people who want to change their running |
| 7 |
>> systems to use the same UIDs that would have been chosen by default. |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> Are you sure that said utility isn’t simply “chown --from”? |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
One would hope that if they implemented it, that they did it safely -- |
| 13 |
but alas it's not standard. |
Archives