On Monday 10 June 2002 17:30 pm, Philip S Tellis wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote: > >�Authentication is done against /etc/shadow, which is usually > >�readable only by root. Hence su should be setuid root. > > I would think all authentication would be done by consolehelper (through > pam), which is setuid root anyway.
1. consolehelper is not suid root - userhelper is. 2. userhelper is in /usr/sbin - and hence /bin/su cannot be a symlink there (since startup scripts may call /bin/su before /usr is mounted). 3. usermode (the package that contains consolehelper) is dependent on X11 libraries - stuff you might not find in a server installation. usermode is mainly aimed at newbie sysadmins who require graphical tools to do routine administration. Binand _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
