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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:44:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
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Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:

[snip]
=)> Does login require suid, or does gettytab run it as root anyway?
=)> 
=)>   Robert N Watson 
=)
=)If you take the SUID off login it works fine, PROVIDED you don't try to use
=)it to "re-login" (a rather common thing for Berzerkelyoids to do).

	What did you mean by "re-login"?  Is that rlogin you're talking
about?


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