[Rpm-maint] Verify when two usernames use the same UID

[Michael Schroeder]

[Back from vacation...]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 11:19:40AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Come to think of it, in the scenario described in the ticket doing the 
> exact opposite (looking up expected UID based on the username from package 
> and comparing with on-disk UID) would do the right thing.
>
> But when there are multiple UIDs with same name, that would get unreliable 
> results whereas the current "algorithm" gets it right.

Having multiple UIDs with the same name never was supported, but
multiple users sharing some uid used to be a supported setup.

Thus tools like 'screen' do a getpwnam on the $LOGNAME (and then
verify that the uid matches) to get the correct password entry
instead of doing a getpwuid on the uid of the process.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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