Re: User authentication to services

 On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:59:32AM +0100, Rob Taylor wrote:
> Ok. started implenting this and am pretty far in, but i have a problem
> with uids in that dbus represents them internally as unsigned longs, and
> if i expose these on dbus we'll have problems on mixed 32/64
> archictectures. I'm pretty certain that uid_t should be a 32 bit entitiy
> on both IAP32 and LP64, and if anyone knows this for certain i'll patch
> it up. If not, i've just subscribed to testdrive.hp.com so i'll just test
> it myself. if uid_t is really 64 bits on LP64, i'll just cast up, but i
> think this set of affairs would be pretty strange..

Indeed, on merkel.debian.org (an IA64):
daniels-sbOth6YQF1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~% cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pwd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        printf("uid_t: %d, unsigned long: %d\n", sizeof(uid_t), sizeof(unsigned 
long));
        return 0;
}
daniels-sbOth6YQF1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~% gcc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -o foo foo.c
daniels-sbOth6YQF1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~% ./foo                           
uid_t: 4, unsigned long: 8

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Daniel Stone                                            
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