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Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future



Scripsit Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>

> Maybe we should have a debconf option for whether the program in question is 
> to be SETUID root or SETGID shadow?  Then the minority of people who use NIS 
> can have full functionality, while the majority of people who don't use NIS 
> can have better security.

Would it be feasible to have the program be suid root, but start by
trying to parse /etc/nsswitch.conf and drop root privileges
immediately unless it finds NIS for passwd/shadow?

-- 
Henning Makholm         "Vend dig ikke om! Det er et meget ubehageligt syn!"



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