Re: utmp group proposal
Le Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:19:19AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman écrivait:
> There is a slight problem though: utmp. Currently only root can update
> the utmp. To solve this 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. It could even be a job for QA to insure that all programs
registering in utmp do it in the right way.
Cheers,
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