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Date:      Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:55:13 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Cc:        n@nectar.com, ume@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: nsswitch 
Message-ID:  <62717.967924513@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:52:54 %2B0200"
References:  <41582.967924374@critter>

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> >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 ?

To be able to emulate rsh by using a port < 1024, I assume. It's installed
setuid by default in 4.1 - personally I think this is wrong and should be
changed.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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