Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to upload ktsuss to debian, wich is a graphical wrapper around > su (much like gksu but without any gnome dependency). One point puzzles > me, the ktsuss binary is setuid root (so it can read the root password). > gksu doesn't do this (it calls su, I guess).
I would expect it to use PAM, which uses the setuid unix_chkpwd binary. If it's not using PAM, that's probably a bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
