Re: State of debianutils

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Personally, I think that this functionality belongs in /bin/su.  I started
> work on a patch to do it, but quit working on it when I found that xauth's
> interface made it overcomplicated to do securely (I wanted to call out to
> xauth because /bin/su shouldn't link with any X libraries, IMO).

Iirc there is already a PAM module somewhere that will do this, which
is also a much better approach then modifying su itself.

Wichert.

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