elementary OS

  1. Bug #1197395
  2. Comment #92

Comment 92 for bug 1197395

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In , Michal (michal-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #22)
>
> > In reply to comment#21, seems to be that there is an issue with your
> > statement. When su -luser, this is a login shell. Seems to me that loginuid
> > should be changing at this point.
>
> Nope, the loginuid traces the UID of the original user account that was
> logged into the machine. This is really important for auditing who is the
> real user behind the operations on the different account.

Right. And additionally, with CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE enabled in the kernel, it is not even possible to change the loginuid of a process.