On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 04:16:17PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: > There is another reason for utmpd, and that's to allow programs to > write utmp entries without needing to be suid root. > In any event, due to the distressingly large number of programs that > manipulate the utmp and wtmp files directly, I am getting rid of > utmpd in the next release. NO!!!!! NO!!! OH, PLEASE GOD, NO!!!! THE HUMANITY!!! *ahem*. Really, please put it back soon. It's time to migrate. It's *BAD* to have stuff sitting around setuid root just so it can muck with the utmp file. Miquel van Smoorenburg is cool and I respect his opinion, but in the end life will be better with Unix98 pty handling. Of course, I speak from a biased position, since I package xterm, and I desperately want to get rid of its setuid bit. -- G. Branden Robinson | I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux | above, but it is too long to fit into branden@ecn.purdue.edu | this .signature file. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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