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Re: setuid programms



On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:

> > Silly question number two; why would anyone other than root want to
> > do such a thing?
> 
> To log in as a different user of course.  The need to do so is left as an
> exercise to the sysadmin.

As a practicing sysadmin, may I suggest that this capacity is not
sufficiently useful to justify the existence of yet another suid-root
binary?

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