Re: the su - user thread [Potential Debian Security Issue]

To: Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>
Cc: debian-security@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: the su - user thread [Potential Debian Security Issue]
From: Leo Howell <leo@marvin.dyndns.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:15:59 +0000
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:11:45PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> Why does the KDE Control Center think the user is currently root? In
> contrast the GNOME Control Center properly identifies the username.

Perhaps KDE uses getlogin(2) ?


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Leo Howell                                           M5AKW

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