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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 04:22:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net>
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
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Subject: Re: SSH 2.0.10 BUG? (!)
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True.  I wonder why it isn't writing to the utmp file...

On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Marc Slemko wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Phillip Salzman wrote:
> 
> > make it +s
> 
> DO NOT.
> 
> Doing so would quite possibly introduce a major security hole.  Very few
> daemons are designed to have the setuid bit set, for the simple reason
> that if they have to be root they are normally already root.  
> 
> > On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, pal wrote:
> > 
> > > its:
> > > 
> > > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  1310188 28  20:57 sshd2 
> [...]
> 
> 
> 


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