Mahmood Ali - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> What exactly is broken in the setuid helper programs that red hat 
> currently uses. I have tried to understand the shortcomings of helper 
> program but never quite understood its limitations. If you guys point me 
> to exactly what is broken, perhaps we try to fix the broken parts?

The whole architecture of it is broken.  Sure it "fixes" that one module 
but what about all the other possible modules in the PAM stack that are 
needed to authenticate/setcreds etc ?

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Darren J Moffat

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