[PATCH] add euid egid handling to id

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:29:56 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2008 21:52, Tito wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> > this is a full rewrote of the id applet rather than a patch.
> > My goal was to add euid egid handling to the applet without
> > increasing its size.
> > While at it I fixed also some differences in exit codes vs GNU id
> > when an id to name translation fails,
> > added some error messages when ENABLE_DESKTOP is set
> > and added some clean up code when ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP is set.
> >
> > The code was extensively tested with the attached script and seems to
> > work correctly. The selinux code was tested in a virtualboxed fedora FC9
> > and seems to work, but the selinux people on the list may take a look at
> > it. The test script maybe could be ported by some list member with better
> > scripting ablities to the testsuite, the main problem probably is that it
> > requires root privileges to prepare the environment for some tests.
> >
> > Attached you will find the test script, the patch and a drop in
> > replacement to allow easier inspection of the code.
>
> Cool! I applied a somewhat modified version. Thanks for test script,
> added it too so that effort is not lost.
>
> > PS: Denys I removed the #if HAVE_getgrouplist as it seems to me
> >       that now we have getgrouplist in busybox libpwd, in gnu libc and
> > also in uclibc (svn?).
>
> Let's hope newer uclibc will be released soon.

uClibc -rc3 went up earlier today, and the new maintainer (Bernhard Fischer) 
is aiming for the final 0.9.30 release at the end of the month.

http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2008-October/020415.html

I've been building nightly snapshots of uClibc cross compilers, and uClibc and 
target systems based on uClibc-svn and busybox-svn, both of which are online 
at http://uclibc.org/~landley/fwl

I keep meaning to make a cron job to do this for me...

Rob