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Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future



On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:36:40PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:47, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > We already have such a group, named "shadow".  In fact, I don't know why
> > unix_chkpwd is setuid root rather than setgid shadow.
> 
> Bug report #155583 has been open for over a year.  I have repeated the tests 
> of Lee and Robert and verified that it works fine as SETGID rather than 
> SETUID.
> 
> Also I believe that Lee's statement regarding NIS is incorrect, unix_chkpwd 
> only does /etc/shadow.

I agree completely; this seems long overdue.  Sam, do you have any
reservations about this?

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 - mdz



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