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Date:      Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:52:54 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        n@nectar.com, ume@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: nsswitch 
Message-ID:  <41582.967924374@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:06:06 %2B0200." <61643.967917966@verdi.nethelp.no> 

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In message <61643.967917966@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no writes:
>
>The mechanism already exists. See libc/net/res_query.c, the hostalias()
>routine:

Cool!

>As you can see, it is explicitly disabled for setuid programs. It works
>for ssh as soon as you make ssh non-setuid (which I think is a good idea
>in any case...)

Why would ssh need to be setuid ?

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