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Re: DSA-134-1



On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 18:11, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> *TECHNICALLY* every login is root.  Getty runs as root and then gives up root
> to the authenticated user once PAM gives the okay...Does this mean the user
> can break back into root?  If the exit their shell (Ctrl + D, or pick your choice
> of logout method...) then Getty immediately respawns....

No... getty exec's a shell (or a login actually) and when this exits
the inetd restarts the getty. :)

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