Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:00:55 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: taob@io.org Cc: phk@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suidness of /usr/bin/login Message-ID: <199607161600.QAA27336@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960716103736.13237F-100000@zap.io.org> (message from Brian Tao on Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:39:14 -0400 (EDT))
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Tao <taob@io.org> writes:
Brian> Other than that, there is no real need for it to be
Brian> setuid root (since telnetd and getty are both already
Brian> running as root). I guess this would put it under "setuid
Brian> root subject to local policy".
Exactly. It's not a terribly useful feature anyway and of all whom I
know are even aware of it, none make use of it. You can always log
out and back in!
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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