On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:34:32PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Has anyone looked at shadow's existing changelog? > > * /bin/login is suid root for several good reasons. For one, it allows > daemons that use it to run as non-root. This is a good thing since it > means only one program is running as root, and not several. closes: #17911 > > -- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:33:47 -0500
Is there anything which does this other than telnetd? I'm more than willing to consider telnetd a legacy, insecure-by-design component for which it is justified to require a non-default configuration. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
