Loophole/Caveat of sytem manager

Jit Keong Tan jit at SLIC.CELLBIO.DUKE.EDU
Fri May 3 02:20:52 AEST 1991


Using the graphical system manager tool, anyone (I mean ANYONE !) can
change his/her own uid field !! 

I was shocked for a while but relieved to find that it is not possible
to change to an existing uid, especially the 0 uid.

Anyway, it seems like a undesired feature.  Could this be changed in
in the future release please ? (That is if this graphics tool is still
being used under 4.0 )


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