Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:40:45 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: taob@io.org Cc: explorer@flame.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: suidness of /usr/bin/login Message-ID: <199607161440.OAA26856@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960716003624.8904L-100000@zap.io.org> (message from Brian Tao on Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:37:14 -0400 (EDT))
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Tao <taob@io.org> writes:
>> you can always use ``login foo'' and that is supposed to let
>> someone else log in, kinda in mid session and all.
Brian> Hmmm... that's hardly ever done, at least around here.
Brian> "exec telnet localhost" would serve the same purpose
Except that telnet allocates a pty while keeping the current tty/pty
in use. After while, you might run out. Or not.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199607161440.OAA26856>