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Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch 
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:52:54 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <61643.967917966@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no writes:
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>The mechanism already exists. See libc/net/res_query.c, the hostalias()
>routine:

Cool!

>As you can see, it is explicitly disabled for setuid programs. It works
>for ssh as soon as you make ssh non-setuid (which I think is a good idea
>in any case...)

Why would ssh need to be setuid ?

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