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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 01:11:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970915011008.18393A-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709150358.NAA04616@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>

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Agree.  Not only have I never used it, I've never even heard of anyone
using it.  Ok, come to think of it, I have used it, but only because I was
amazed that I could.  :-) 

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Stephen McKay wrote:

> >Perhaps 0500 permissions are in order.
> 
> If I recall correctly, that was the concensus of opinion last time I
> heard this discussed... back in 1986, I believe.  Is there any reason
> why a non-root process should invoke login?  I can't think of any.
> 
> Stephen.
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 




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