SysVR4 process accounting.

[Greg A. Woods]

In article <1991Apr5.124324 at anusf.anu.edu.au> mbl900 at anusf.anu.edu.au (Mathew BM LIM) writes:
> PS : Does anyone have any idea of what I may break by having one UID and
> 	several login names attached to it? Will ps break? will disk quotas break?
> 	will my mail break? Will my sanity break?

Your UNIX security will break.  I.e. you can kiss accountability good-bye!

Mail may not work great, nor will anything which used getpwuid() or
simply scans the password file for a user-id.  It will always find
only the first one that matches.
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