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From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2010-08-10, Janne Snabb wrote:
> Looks like the per-user login capability database (~/.login_conf,
> ~/.login_conf.db) functionality is creating a vulnerability.

See also PR bin/141840:

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141840

-- 
Jaakko