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To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: bin/1410: /usr/bin/login is suid, with little requirement for this
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From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
Date: 22 Jul 1996 16:47:45 -0400
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"David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> writes:

>  > I've found it useful for testing login stuff without risking a hangup.
>  > Bruce
>  
>  Makes sense in your case.  But IMHO, that is a special case.  And you
>  could manually make /usr/bin/login suid root on the machines you need
>  this functionality on.  But do you think /usr/bin/login should be suid
>  root in the general case?

I do, yes.

IMHO, it should be linked -static, however.  All setuid programs should be.

--Michael