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Re: Bug 26827 again (about secure-su)



On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 10:27:36PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote:
> Could secure-su divert /bin/su from fileutils and then make the
> diverted copy not suid root?  (restoring the suid bit in the postrm,
> of course)  I'm not entirely certain that this would work, as I don't
> know what diversions will do on upgrades, but...

That's exactly how it works ever since. :-)

Michael
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