On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:21:19AM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > 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. > > Maybe a stupid question, but does utmpd also change the permissions > and ownership of /dev/tty*? Please note, that this is the second > reason, why some programs have to run SUID root. Hmm. I'm starting to learn that utmpd is not the panacea I was hoping for. *sigh* There has to be a better way. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux | selfishness. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
Attachment:
pgpJ9tLJ3JHRm.pgp
Description: PGP signature