Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:00:02 -0800 (PST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2265: su(1) does not call skeyaccess() Message-ID: <199612221000.CAA25772@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2265; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bradley@dunn.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: bin/2265: su(1) does not call skeyaccess() Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 10:33:24 +0100 (MET) As bradley@dunn.org wrote: > >Description: > > su(1) does not call skeyaccess() (from libskey), thus rendering the > controls in /etc/skey.access useless. Well, it rather seems like it was deliberately omitted, as opposed to forgotten. A user running su(1) has already been authenticated to the system, and _that's_ where skey.access should hit. Guido, any comments on this (and perhaps even a manpage for skeyaccess(3) :)? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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