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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: login setuid root
Message-ID: <814@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 13:44:31 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.814
Posted: Mon Nov 25 13:44:31 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Nov-85 05:44:03 EST
References: <380@sol1.UUCP>
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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In article <380@sol1.UUCP> john@sol1.UUCP (John Korsmeyer) writes:
>I would appreciate someone filling me in on the advantages/disadvantages
>of running login setuid to root. BTW our login forks, not execs the
>login shell. (for accounting purposes).

The only disadvantage is that a user can't type "login other-user".  They would
have to logout first.
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