Bug 443485

Summary:	id <username> should not print security context of current user
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ronny Buchmann <ronny-rhbugzilla>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ronny Buchmann 2008-04-21 19:59:03 UTC

Description of problem:
"id <user>" prints the security context of the calling user, not of the given
username.
This is extremely misleading. (Especially with the new selinux where not
everybody is unconfined_u)

I think it's not possible to print the security context of the given user, so
it's better to not print it at all.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.10-18.fc9

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2008-04-22 08:16:06 UTC

Thanks for report, that id behavior is not RedHat specific, will propose that
change to upstream (to not display security context when user is specified).
Seems to be reasonable(context is missleading) and it is not a big deal.

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2008-04-24 15:08:47 UTC

Accepted by upstream, built as coreutils-6.11-2.fc10. Closing RAWHIDE.