Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:17:59 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu, mpp, freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/1410 Message-ID: <199702212217.OAA28162@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: /usr/bin/login is suid, with little requirement for this State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed State-Changed-By: mpp State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 21 14:15:13 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Bruce Evans has a good example of why to keep the setuid bit, and I have personally used this feature when some problem prevents me from getting access to the machine, and the only available login was from a non-privledged users logged in terminal. I was then able to run login, get access to my account, su and then fix the problem without a reobot.
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