Re: how is lock owner determined?

[Will Parsons]

Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> Looks like RCS doesn't respect EUID:
> 
> http://jspwiki.org/wiki/RCSFileProviderIssues
>
I'm not sure the information here is really applicable, since it's talking
of UID != EUID, and RCS using the real ID (and of course, I'm not using su
at all).  As I stated, I'm setting *both* UID & EUID to a client account.
In fact, once both are changed from the original root account, I don't see
how RCS is even finding "root" to use as the file locker.

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Will Parsons wrote:
> 
>> I am running a daemon which executes RCS commands on behalf of remote
>> clients (platform is FreeBSD).  The daemon attempts to set its real and
>> effective UID to that of the requesting client, and printing out the UID &
>> EUID seems to verify that this is successful.  Nevertheless, when a file is
>> checked out, it gets locked as root rather the new UID.  I thought that the
>> lock should be owned by the real UID, is this not necessarily the case?