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Re: (forw) Bug#298060: Please don't install login as setuid root



Has anyone looked at shadow's existing changelog?

  * /bin/login is suid root for several good reasons. For one, it allows
    daemons that use it to run as non-root. This is a good thing since it
    means only one program is running as root, and not several. closes: #17911

 -- Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:33:47 -0500

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see shy jo (hurrah for changelog abuse!)

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