28 Aug
2003
28 Aug
'03
10:18 a.m.
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:01, Bob Hall wrote:
They don't have to have real accounts, just the uids have to be reserved for them. For example you could just decide that uids above 10000 are for virtual users in LDAP.
Since the UIDs don't correspond to actual system accounts, then I take it that there's no OS level security?
There is. With unix accounts I mean about having the user in /etc/passwd or equilevant. Kernel doesn't care about that, it only cares about the uids used for files and processes.