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From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SysVR4 process accounting.
Keywords: SysVR4 process accounting
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.161928.28750@eci386.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 91 16:19:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.133854@anusf.anu.edu.au> <1991Apr5.124324@anusf.anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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In article <1991Apr5.124324@anusf.anu.edu.au> mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au (Mathew BM LIM) writes:
> PS : Does anyone have any idea of what I may break by having one UID and
> 	several login names attached to it? Will ps break? will disk quotas break?
> 	will my mail break? Will my sanity break?

Your UNIX security will break.  I.e. you can kiss accountability good-bye!

Mail may not work great, nor will anything which used getpwuid() or
simply scans the password file for a user-id.  It will always find
only the first one that matches.
-- 
							Greg A. Woods
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