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7.3.1 USER

If "configure" detects that UIDs are not supported on the system you are running on (that is, you are compiling on a system that doesn't look at all like Unix) then the environment variable USER is used to determine the invoking user's name. This is then the name which is used in the p-file and in the delta information for new deltas. This username is also compared against the list of authorised users by delta. Of course, this doesn't provide much security but in the absence of user ID support, CSSC can't tell who users really are anyway.

The behaviour of CSSC with respect to this option is not sensitive to whether or not programs are installed set-user-id, because this variable is only consulted on systems where set-user-id is not supported. This may be a problem on systems where it is possible to grant enhanced privileges to a program, but which do not look like Unix to the "configure" program.



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