Re: utmp group proposal

[Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>]

At 03:19 +0200 1999-05-09, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 > 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.


-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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