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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:21:48 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        akm@mail.theinternet.com.au, matt@Mlink.NET, bc@thehub.com.au, cain@tasam.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell Account system
Message-ID:  <199906020321.NAA22830@mail.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199906020313.UAA86277@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jun 1, 1999  8:13:42 pm"

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+----[ Matthew Dillon ]---------------------------------------------
| :
| :Unless you have multiple remote admins, who you don't want to be
| :able to stuff with the conf files, but, you do want them to be able
| :to restart the daemon.
| :
| 
|     You can always argue that your favoriate methods of admin requires 
|     binaries to be suid-root, but all it means is that you need to change
|     your methods.

I'd agree that you don't want it suid root, I don't agree that you
don't want it suid some other non-privelged user.

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