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Re: utmp group proposal



On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:19:19AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I propose we create an utmp group and put in policy that programs that
> want to modify the utmp should be setgid utmp instead of setuid root
> (unless root is needed for other purposes of course).

Seconded.

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