effective vs. real user ID

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Jan 2 16:39:49 EST 2003


In message <15892.42975.687258.198412 at komodo.home.wards.net>
	so spake  (bill):

> Any chance such a knob could be added in a future version?

It could be done as a compile-time option (via configure) but a
run-time knob is hard for this since when sudoers is read in the
parser really needs to know which user it is supposed to look up.

 - todd


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