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> >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 ?

To be able to emulate rsh by using a port < 1024, I assume. It's installed
setuid by default in 4.1 - personally I think this is wrong and should be
changed.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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