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Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling. 
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    from Brian Somers at "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:00:31 +0000"
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:58:22 +1000
From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
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On Monday, 15th September 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

>> I don't understand why login should ever be called interactively.  We
>> have su for that.
>
>Perhaps 0500 permissions are in order.

If I recall correctly, that was the concensus of opinion last time I
heard this discussed... back in 1986, I believe.  Is there any reason
why a non-root process should invoke login?  I can't think of any.

Stephen.