Date: 22 Jul 1996 16:47:45 -0400 From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1410: /usr/bin/login is suid, with little requirement for this Message-ID: <v6g26k10cu.fsf@kechara.flame.org> In-Reply-To: "David E. O'Brien"'s message of Sun, 21 Jul 1996 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) References: <199607210940.CAA25451@freefall.freebsd.org>
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"David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> writes: > > I've found it useful for testing login stuff without risking a hangup. > > Bruce > > Makes sense in your case. But IMHO, that is a special case. And you > could manually make /usr/bin/login suid root on the machines you need > this functionality on. But do you think /usr/bin/login should be suid > root in the general case? I do, yes. IMHO, it should be linked -static, however. All setuid programs should be. --Michael
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