Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:34:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jw@ns.calyx.com (John Williams) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suid login Message-ID: <199608231734.MAA26728@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960823024047.8287C-100000@mojo.calyx.net> from "John Williams" at Aug 23, 96 02:44:19 am
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> Hi, I'm having annoying problems with users who connect, then run login to > hide their source host. My problem isn't so much the (attempted) hiding, > but the fact that after a lot of this activity my w display gets full of > broken fixed entries from people long logged off. Really? I am a little suprised, I usually don't ever see problems with this under FreeBSD. > If I remove the setuid > bit from login can I expect any ill behavior from it other then the fact > that users can no longer re-login without reconnecting? I have noticed > that setuid screen when called with -ln causes similar problems. What is > going on and is there a way I can support those programs without getting > bogus login entries? Well you seem to be having an interesting problem of some sort... A simpler idea for login is simply to chgrp it to the group you use for your users and then chmod g-x it :-) Nasty nasty.. but potentially effective. More interesting would be to figure out what is causing your problems to begin with. ... JGhome | help
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